Bella has endured years of mental and physical abuse until she's tucked herself away and refuses to speak. When she's fostered by the rich Esme and Carlisle Cullen, she finds herself forced into a new life surrounded by people who don't understand her. Weighed down by her past, she must learn to cope and find a way to overcome her fears by the hands of the last person she expected.

Bella leaves behind a troubled past in Phoenix to start fresh in Forks. Fate has strange plans for her as she befriends self-destructive enabler Edward Cullen and falls head over heels for the mysteriously beautiful Rosalie Hale. Things can get better, but sometimes they have to get worse first. Rosalie/Bella.

The wolves arrive too late to save Bella from Laurent, but time has other plans for her.