Adelaide Swan moves from her hometown of Houston, Texas to the sunny city of Volterra, Italy in 1863 for a new beginning. She is invited to attend a ball inside the castle, when she bumps into a blonde man with skin so cold and hair like gold. Her life is turned around as he pulls her into the world of the supernatural and tells her that he is a vampire and she is his mate. After he had turned her, not long after she runs away to only be seen 149 years later fighting against him as he and the rest of the Volturi plan to kill the only family she has left.