OC x Carlisle Cullen / Caius When Bella Swan disappears after her wedding, her family is left with half-truths and unanswered calls. Weeks turn into months, and all Clara hears is that her sister is "sick" and "needs time." But Bella's distant words don't sound like her anymore - and the silence that follows feels like betrayal. As Bella's strange new life unfolds far away, Clara struggles to hold her family together - especially their father, who still believes his eldest daughter will come home. But when Bella finally reappears, changed in ways Clara can't explain, old wounds reopen. The sister she loved is both familiar and utterly foreign. Drawn into the orbit of the Cullens, Clara finds herself unexpectedly confiding in Dr. Carlisle Cullen - the man who once seemed only her sister's friend. His calm understanding becomes her anchor in a world that makes less and less sense. Yet the more she learns, the more she senses the truth he cannot tell her... and the quiet ache between them neither can admit. In a place where truth is deadly and love is no longer human, Clara must decide how much of her heart she's willing to risk for someone who stopped being mortal long ago.

»Or I can be the one who takes things away from you.« Ever since Isabella Swan had laid eyes on Edward, the Cullen's peaceful existance had been thrown into chaos - a change Lucrezia Cullen didn't welcome. But when the Volturi show up on their doorstep, Lucrezia's fate seemed to take its own course. Forced to follow the path that lead her to Volterra, things began to unravel in ways whose end not even her sister Alice could have foreseen. A past that she thought was lost centuries ago suddenly came knocking at her door, bringing light into the darkness that she wished had stayed a shadow. But with the human girl, who seemed to magically attract trouble, the life of her family is turned further upside down and thrown onto a road whose end disappeared into the fog of the unclear future. And yet, what if in the end Bella was the reason Lucrezia found something she didn't even know she was looking for?