Clark's Harbor has always been the perfect coastal haven, but as strangers come to settle there, they die, one by one, in violent and mysterious ways. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark's Harbor and some evil supernatural force? The sea itself seems to be calling for human sacrifice -- a howling, deadly "Cry for Strangers"....

When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

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.