Fireheart

"Some girls are born soft. Others learn softness after the storm. River Morgan was born in the wreckage."

River Morgan is seventeen, sharp-tongued and soft-spoken, a girl who hides bruises behind vintage lace and loneliness behind quotes from Sylvia Plath. As the daughter of Forks' revered mayor, her life looks perfect from the outside-but perfection is brittle, and River is quietly falling apart.

When she collapses at school and is taken to Forks Hospital, she meets Dr. Carlisle Cullen-a man as composed as she is chaotic, with eyes that see far too much. Carlisle is used to hiding secrets, but he's never met anyone like her: mysterious, wounded, brilliant, and haunted by a grief she carries like an heirloom.

As their paths continue to cross, Carlisle finds himself drawn to the girl who speaks in metaphors and stares like she's seen the end of the world. But River has a darkness clinging to her-and not all monsters have fangs.