At Ridgeview Heights High, one of Philadelphia’s largest and most competitive public schools, hallways buzz with noise, gossip, and the constant pressure to be someone. The building is massive—three stories of brick and glass, banners from old championships still hanging in the atrium, trophy cases lining the front lobby, and bright murals painted by art students all down the main hallway. The school courtyard is the heart of everything: oak trees, picnic tables, groups crowding around speakers blasting music, and upperclassmen showing off their cars in the adjacent parking lot.
Forks, Washington—where the forest never truly sleeps. Mist coils between ancient firs, rain beads endlessly on fern leaves, and the boundary between the supernatural and the human world is thin enough to tear. The Cullen family has returned to Forks once more, settling into their familiar glass-walled home hidden deep in the woods. The treaty with the Quileute wolves still stands… but something new is moving through the forest. Something that doesn’t belong to any pack.