The Future Was You

Alice Cullen saw Jasper Hale long before she ever met him.

But strangely enough, he was never alone.

There was always a girl.

Dark hair. Hazel eyes. A brilliant mind. A sharp tongue. A human girl who wouldn't even be born for decades-and who somehow stood beside Jasper in Alice's visions as though that was exactly where she had always belonged.

Alice saw Jasper love her.

She saw the haunted soldier finally find peace in her presence. She saw the mysterious girl become part of the Cullen family. And perhaps most unexpectedly, Alice saw herself gaining something she had never known she wanted quite so desperately:

a sister.

So when Alice finally finds Jasper in 1948, she isn't searching for a mate.

She's searching for her best friend.

And she's carrying an impossible promise about a girl neither of them has met yet.

For decades, Jasper listens to Alice speak of the mysterious woman supposedly waiting somewhere in his future. But as years become generations and visions change, Jasper begins to wonder if Alice's promised soulmate was ever meant to exist at all.

Then the Cullens move to Forks, Washington.

And Seraphina Vale walks through the doors of Forks High School.

Brilliant, sarcastic, fiercely independent, and carrying wounds of her own, Seraphina has spent her life believing that anything can be understood if she studies it long enough.

Then she meets Jasper Hale.

The beautiful, strangely old-fashioned boy who can sense every emotion she desperately tries to hide.

Jasper recognizes her before she ever learns his name.

Alice has loved her for nearly a century before they've exchanged a single word.

And Seraphina?

She doesn't believe in destiny.

Unfortunately for her, destiny has been waiting a very long time.

Because sometimes your future isn't a place you're going.

Sometimes it's a person you haven't met yet.