Prologue
Nothing had changed really. The reservation still looked the same. The Spartans were still at the same place they'd always been and yet everything had changed.
Gone were many of the students from Bella's class of 2008. There were a few who had stayed, taking on the typical low collar jobs of garbage men, janitors, fishermen and other jobs in the fisheries business, some typical blue collar but the core group that had belonged to the once Bella Swan had moved beyond their small town, the only one having stayed behind was Mike Newton, having taken on his family's outdoor store after it was passed onto him and still not being an outdoors kind of guy. He had often thought of selling it but it was home.
And after twenty-four years, it was the reason for their return. It didn't matter where the Cullen's, Jacob and few of his pack had been, in the end Forks was still the place they considered home.
