The Mysterious Benedict Society never formed. Curtain won without a fight. Five years later, Reynard Muldoon is kidnapped from his orphanage bedroom by a girl with startling blue eyes.

After her brother's death, writer Bella Swan severs contact with her family and moves to Forks, where she meets the reclusive Cullen clan and forms an unusual bond with the youngest Cullen boy, Edward. However, as Bella falls deeper and deeper into the fantasy world of her latest novel, she risks losing everything she has come to hold dear.