He left to keep her human. She broke her heart to hear his voice.
Who drives the story
Eighteen now, and furious about it. When Edward leaves, she discovers his voice lives in her adrenaline, and she starts courting death to hear it—until the race to Italy forces her to choose saving him over mourning him.
The eternally-seventeen vampire who decides Bella is safer without him and vanishes on that promise. Believing she's dead, he travels to Italy to have the Volturi destroy him.
The sixteen-year-old Quileute boy who fixes Bella's motorcycles and falls for her while she uses him to hear a ghost's voice. A fever, a growth spurt, and a confession reveal he's become a werewolf sworn to protect humans from vampires.
Edward's sister, who sees the future but goes blind around werewolves. Her vision of Bella's cliff dive—read as a suicide—sends her racing back to Forks and then to Italy with Bella.
Bella's father, the Forks police chief, who finds her collapsed in the forest and threatens to send her to her mother in Jacksonville when grief makes her a zombie.
The vengeful vampire hunting Bella to avenge James's death, wanting her to suffer and die slowly, piece by piece.
Also in the story
The newest vegetarian vampire, whose fragile control snaps at the smell of one drop of Bella's blood—triggering the accident that convinces Edward to leave.
The patriarch and doctor who stitches Bella's arm and explains that Jasper has the hardest time with their no-human diet.
The nomadic vampire Bella meets in her meadow, who delivers Victoria's death sentence and nearly becomes her executioner before the wolves drive him off.
Bella's mother in Jacksonville, the recipient of an email Bella writes and deletes, unable to say anything at all.
How they are connected
When Edward leaves, she discovers his voice lives in her adrenaline, and she starts courting death to hear it—until the race to Italy forces her to choose saving him over mourning him.
The sixteen-year-old Quileute boy who fixes Bella's motorcycles and falls for her while she uses him to hear a ghost's voice.
Edward's sister, who sees the future but goes blind around werewolves.
Her vision of Bella's cliff dive—read as a suicide—sends her racing back to Forks and then to Italy with Bella.
Bella's father, the Forks police chief, who finds her collapsed in the forest and threatens to send her to her mother in Jacksonville when grief makes her a zombie.
The newest vegetarian vampire, whose fragile control snaps at the smell of one drop of Bella's blood—triggering the accident that convinces Edward to leave.
The newest vegetarian vampire, whose fragile control snaps at the smell of one drop of Bella's blood—triggering the accident that convinces Edward to leave.
The patriarch and doctor who stitches Bella's arm and explains that Jasper has the hardest time with their no-human diet.
The patriarch and doctor who stitches Bella's arm and explains that Jasper has the hardest time with their no-human diet.
The vengeful vampire hunting Bella to avenge James's death, wanting her to suffer and die slowly, piece by piece.
The nomadic vampire Bella meets in her meadow, who delivers Victoria's death sentence and nearly becomes her executioner before the wolves drive him off.
The nomadic vampire Bella meets in her meadow, who delivers Victoria's death sentence and nearly becomes her executioner before the wolves drive him off.
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Grief as self-erasure · Adrenaline as a drug · Being the older one · Protection that destroys
Themes explainedThe full story act by act, the ending explained and a quick quiz.
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