Two separate lives, lived thousands of miles apart, forever altered by chance events. Two separate lives, grappling with those events in their own ways. Two separate lives, converging one summer in an idyllic haven. E&B AU. All human.

All Bella Swan wanted for Christmas was to escape the city. In Forks, she hoped for a quiet, Hallmark-Channel-style holiday with requisite fresh air and snow, but minus the useless romance. Instead, she got a Dickens Christmas Carol complete with a haunted Victorian and the brooding yet captivating ghost of a Prohibition-era bootlegger, still stubbornly stuck in Christmas past. ExB

On the eve of the Second World War, young Isabella has been taken from all she knows and is now stepdaughter to one of the richest men in America. Spending her summers in Washington State, she's unaware that this is where she & a young boy will find their fate, where childhood friendship will mature into the fiercest love: a love that must endure the end of innocence. Rated M. E&B.

Bella is 5 minutes away from what's to be her happiest day - when a phone call changes it all. Frustrated and pissed-off, she embarks on a 10 day vacay to Key West, hoping for some space in which to clear her head, but when she meets the cocky, flirty and sexy-as-sin diving instructor, her plans take a much steamier turn. BxE Summer Short Story with M thru F updates. Rated M.