After Edward Cullen and his vampire family leave Forks to protect Bella Swan from danger, Bella plunges into devastating heartbreak and numbness. Months later, she discovers that risking her life allows her to hear Edward's voice in her mind, leading her to seek increasingly dangerous thrills. Her friendship with Jacob Black deepens, and she learns his secret: he is a werewolf, a natural enemy of vampires. When Bella attempts a fatal cliff dive, Edward, believing her dead, travels to Italy to provoke the Volturi into killing him. Bella races to save him, and upon returning home, must face the Cullens' vote on her mortality.
