In the wake of the abrupt departure of the Cullens, Bella falls into a perpetual state of despair, seemingly irreparably damaged. However, a month following the night she had considered to be the end of her life, a new one begins. A red-eyed messenger shatters Bella's perception of reality by revealing the truth of Bella's identity, nature, and origins, delivering her from the destruction of her mortal life to her destiny.
After a chaotic-and very dangerous-series of events, Bella finds herself in a thrilling new world as an integral part of a powerful immortal race whose existence is unknown to all others, presented with a purpose to fight and protect the world from monstrous creatures that don't belong in it. Despite finding her true family and managing to mend some of her fractured heart, she can't help but mourn the family she lost, and nothing eases the persistent ache in her chest caused by a notably missing piece of her heart. Rosalie Hale had taken that piece with her when she'd walked out on Bella's life, and, by the time Rosalie realizes the extent of her egregious mistake, Bella Swan is nothing more than a missing person to the town of Forks.
When the lives of immortals are endangered around the world, the two find each other, but their reunion comes with the alarming realization that death follows closely at their heels. There is more to these threats than meets the eye, however, and, as old friends and enemies come together to fight for the stability of the world, they begin to suspect that they may be a larger part of it than they'd initially thought.