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Aurelia only came to Forks to help Carlisle protect his family. She fully intends to be on the first plane back home when this whole mess is over.

But when locking eyes with Charlie Swan reveals a mate-bond she had long since abandoned hope of finding, Aurelia is torn between the life of solitude and freedom she's known for the last 500 years, and a potential life with the man fate has deemed her equal in every way.

Warring with her checkered past and centuries of heartbreak, Charlie's protective vampire daughter, and the Volturi, Aurelia almost wishes she never picked up the phone in the first place.