High-school student Cordelia "Cora" Juliet Swan, always a bit sickly, doesn't expect life to change much when she moves from sunny Arizona to rainy Washington state with her sister Isabella "Bella" Marie Swan. Then she meets Jasper Hale, a handsome but mysterious teen whose eyes seem to peer directly into her soul. Jasper is a vampire whose family does not drink blood, and Cora, far from being frightened, enters into a dangerous romance with her immortal soulmate.