Twilight:The Lone Star Imortal

Title: Lone Star Immortal

Long before the events of The Twilight Saga, there was another legend hidden in vampire history.

Her name was Eleanor Whitlock.

Born a full-blooded Native American woman in Texas, Eleanor grew into a fierce warrior and leader. During the American Civil War, she became a feared Texas cavalry major, riding into battle atop her powerful Clydesdale stallion, Thunder. Two hundred years older than the man she would one day love, Eleanor carried the strength, pride, and spirit of the Lone Star State wherever she rode.

During the war she met Captain Jasper Whitlock, a brilliant Confederate officer. Their bond was immediate and unbreakable. Beneath the stars of the Texas plains, they married during the chaos of war.

But their lives changed forever when the vampire Maria turned them both into vampires.

Separated by war and centuries of darkness, Eleanor built a life of her own while searching for her lost husband. Gifted with two rare vampire abilities-fertility and shapeshifting into any land animal-Eleanor became something almost unheard of among vampires. She was able to give life even after becoming immortal, raising her biological children before eventually turning them into vampires like herself.

She even transformed her loyal Civil War horse, Thunder, into a powerful vampire companion.

For centuries Eleanor watched over the world and over the family she built, never giving up hope that she would one day find Jasper again.

When they finally reunite, their family grows stronger than any vampire coven before them.

Together, Eleanor, Jasper, and their immortal children eventually cross paths with the mysterious Carlisle Cullen and his unique vegetarian vampire family, leading them directly into the events surrounding Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and the rest of the Cullen clan.

But Eleanor Whitlock is no ordinary vampire.

She is a warrior of Texas, a shapeshifter of the wild, a mother of immortal children.