Prologue
In the small town of Verona, the Swans and the Cullens have hated each other since the beginning of time. It was simply the way things were - like the way fire hates water, which will never change. And so things between the Swans and the Cullens never changed as generations passed – well, that's not entirely true. On Isabella Swan's (the only Swan child at the time) fourteenth birthday and just after Edward Cullen (the only Cullen child at the time) had turned seventeen, things changed; weather for the better or worse – that is up to you to decide.