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Printed in the United States of America



For my big sister, Emily,

without whose enthusiasm this story might still be unfinished.



But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

thou shalt not eat of it:

for in the day that thou eatest thereof

thou shalt surely die.



Genesis 2:17

PREFACE



I'd never given much thought to how I would die тАФ though I'd had reason enough in the last few months
тАФ but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked
pleasantly back at me.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought
to count for something.

I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't
bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations,
it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me.

1. FIRST SIGHT



My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in
Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt тАФ sleeveless, white eyelet