Sixteen year old Melanie Uley has spent her entire life on the Quileute Reservation alongside her older brother, Sam, and her best friend, Jacob Black. Life is simple with school, bonfires, and endless afternoons in Billy Black's garage-until Bella Swan arrives in Forks and the impossible begins to unravel. When a vampire attack leaves Melanie forever changed, she becomes caught between two worlds. As ancient rivalries awaken and Jacob discovers the truth behind his own destiny, the friendship they built over a lifetime is tested by the one thing neither of them can escape: what she's becoming.