I read Life and Death when it first came out, hungrily drinking in each alternate-universes word, sinking into the book like it was a warm bubble bath, familiar and like coming home... I read it, and I quickly put it aside, for a long while. But recently I pulled the book out again, and as I read it again, with a new, more patient perspective, I realized that Beau and Edythe's story wasn't just a gender-bender reflection of Twilight. As I read it again, I realized that these characters were their own, and I fell in love with them, hard. Beau and Edythe's love story is beautifully unique, full of the familiar themes of the original twilight-the fearless exhilaration of first love, bravery, courage, self-sacrifice, and perseverance. I read the story again, and as I sat there, I tried to imagine how I could reshape their story, to fit it to the way the rest of the series had played out, like Bella and Edward's story had. I sat and stewed, trying to come up with a way to write an alternate ending-which would have been easy enough, and a continuum that would have been easy... But less original, I found myself enraptured by the way things had ended. With Beau a vampire, and eternity set out in front of them like a golden plate... With a few twists and snares along the way. And not only just Edythe and Beau's story, but Beau and Jules's story, and Beau and Royal's story, Beau and Archie's story... So here I am, preparing to bring that to life. So. Are you ready? Here we go...