When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Seventeen-year-olds Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are enmeshed in an intense, hungry love that leaves them both destroyed, yet passionately longing for more. Bella's scent and very being excites Edward, a vampire who, along with his family, abstains from feasting on humans. After a difficult start, the two become inseparable, learning more and more about each other as the days pass, all the while knowing that with every thrilling moment might end with Bella's death. The beautiful, evergreen landscape of Washington state's Olympic Peninsula permeates this gripping, fast-paced drama as it torpedoes through the notions of family, relationships, and sacrificing everything imaginable for true love. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005 and a 2005 School Library Journal Best Book.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: General, Science Fiction + Fantasy + Magic, School + Education
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Listening Library
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: October 11, 2005
- Date Published: October 11, 2005
- Author: Stephenie Meyer
- Narrator: Ilyana Kadushin (Narrator)