After her mother remarries, seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to live with her father, the police chief of a small, perpetually rainy town—Forks. On her very first day at school, her attention is drawn to the Cullen family, distinguished by extraordinary beauty—and Edward Cullen in particular displays strange behavior. In the end, it turns out that the Cullens are “vegetarian” vampires who feed on the blood of wild animals, and Edward had been avoiding the girl because he was afraid he would lose control and bite her. Bella and Edward begin a romance, but the idyllic love story is disrupted by the arrival in the Forks area of three roaming vampire nomads. The guests are not as scrupulous as Dr. Carlisle Cullen’s family; they drink human blood— and the most dangerous of the trio, James, sets his sights on Bella…