Prologue

My name is Isabella Marie Swan, I'm 20 years old, and I live with my father Charles Swan and my

mother Renee Elizabeth Swan. We arrived in Houston, Texas on March 1867. My father was a farmer at

one of the houses at the prestigious side of the city, and my mother was an assistant teacher at the

nearby school. We needed more money because my mother was expecting a baby, so I decided to work as

a babysitter at the mansion of the Webber's from 10 on the morning to 8 on the night. Suddenly around

July of that year the city became aware of the mysterious disappearances of people during the night. The

police started a search, but didn't found anything that was logical, that could prove some kind of

similarities between the victims; they only found that the cause of death was that every one had been

blood drained on the night so they declared it as a cold case.

To get home from work I had to walk a long, solitary, dark road. After walking 23 minutes completely

alone, I noticed three inhumanly gorgeous people standing on the side of the road where I was walking;

when I was approaching them I realized that they were two men and a woman with the most pale skin I

had ever seen; the woman who introduced herself as Maria approach me with very graceful movements.

She started asking personal questions like my name, my age, and also asks me about some of my past.

Once I told her everything, she asked me if I would like to go to her house so we can talk a little more;

instantly I refused kindly and excused myself with the reason that I needed to be home soon. I hadn't even

took five steps when I felt two strong, ice cold and hard arms that captured me and turned around so I was

facing this Maria. In the second I was face to face with her she start explaining me that they are vampires

and that I would become one soon because she has the impression that I would be an excellent newborn

warrior in her army, and if I survive the first year they will train me better so I could be the first hand of

some guy they referred as Major. After she told me that, the two men that came with her grabbed me and

started impossibly fast for a human. After 30 minutes of running, we entered an underground cave.

Instantly Maria told them to escort me into a room and changed me immediately. I was told to lay on the

bed and to try and relax; I did as I was told and suddenly I felt bites on each side of my neck, on both

wrists, on each knee, and on both ankles. After the bites there was the most excruciating and unbearable

pain I ever felt in my entire life who accordingly to them it will last around three days.