Eclipse
By: Stephenie Meyer
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Contents
PREFACE
1. ULTIMATUM
2.EVASION
3.MOTIVES
4.NATURE
5. IMPRINT
6. SWITZERLAND
7. UNHAPPY ENDING
8.TEMPER
9. TARGET
10.SCENT
11. LEGENDS
12. TIME
13. NEWBORN
14. DECLARATION
15.WAGER
16. EPOCH
17. ALLIANCE
18. INSTRUCTION
19. SELFISH
20.COMPROMISE
21. TRAILS
22.FIRE AND ICE
23. MONSTER
24. SNAP DECISION
25. MIRROR
26. ETHICS
27. NEEDS
EPILOGUE:
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Copyright © 2007 by Stephenie Meyer
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Summary: Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
1. Vampires — Fiction.
2. High schools — Fiction.
3. Schools — Fiction.
4. Washington (State) — Fiction.
Printed in the United States of America
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To my husband, Pancho,
for your patience, love, friendship, humor,
and willingness to eat out.
And also to my children, Gabe, Seth, and Eli,
for letting me experience the kind of love that people freely die for.
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Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
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PREFACE
ALL OUR ATTEMPTS AT SUBTERFUGE HAD BEEN IN VAIN.
With ice in my heart, I watched him prepare to defend me. His intense concentration betrayed no hint of doubt, though he was outnumbered. I knew that we could expect no help — at this moment, his family was fighting for their lives just as surely as he was for ours.
Would I ever learn the outcome of that other fight? Find out who the winners and the losers were? Would I live long enough for that?
The odds of that didn’t look so great.
Black eyes, wild with their fierce craving for my death, watched for the moment when my protector’s attention would be diverted. The moment when I would surely die.
Somewhere, far, far away in the cold forest, a wolf howled.
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