Prologue
My name is Elyse Cullen. I know what you must be thinking. You're thinking that I am related to the Cullen's. Well then you would be right. I will tell you all about that later. First I must tell you how I met them.
Unfamiliar
My family and I were out hunting. We tried to go weekly but because my husband was a lawyer we didn't always get to go together. This was one of the times when we did.
I liked to let our children race ahead of us and then Alex (my husband) and I would race to see who could catch them first.
While our kids raced on ahead, Alex and I stopped at a waterfall.
"Shall we go swimming and see how long it takes them to figure out that we're not chasing them?" Alex asked.
"That sounds intriguing. Why not?" I said.
An hour passed and yet our kids hadn't come looking for us.
"That's strange," I remarked.
"What?"
"The kids haven't come looking."
Then the wind picked up and I caught the scent of vampires. Unfamiliar vampires.
