Charlie Swan, the chief of police and Bella's father, has been changed into a vampire less than a year after his own daughter was changed. Now he and Harry, the one who changed him, know everything about the Cullens and the Volturi. They have been part of the Volturi guard in the past, and now it's coming back to bite them when they find themselves fighting against them.

A group of complete strangers wake up to find themselves stranded in a strange environment with no memory of who they are or where they came from. Forced to battle the elements, wild animals and each other while they attempt to discover their own origins, the group soon discovers that a more sinister element may be at work here. Unable to trust what their senses tell them, the ragtag band of survivors struggles to find answers in a world manufactured by the Genesis Machine

Nineteen year old Daniel is just trying to live his life, working an average job to make ends meet in Alaska's largest city while attending the local college. But all that is rendered meaningless when a meteorite smashes into the planet, plunging our world into an apocalyptic winter and crushing civilization as we know it. As each new day brings less sunlight and more cold, Daniel is forced to watch the people around him die one by one: some from cold, some from starvation, and some from each other.