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Product Description Stephenie Meyer's fans will want to sink their teeth into this stunning Twilight Saga collector's set, featuring exclusive white covers.This gorgeous gift set includes paperback editions of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner with exclusive cover redesigns, making it the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling series.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, The Twilight Saga captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires.It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view."People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time"A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times Review Praise for The Twilight Saga:"Meyer has, like one of her vampires, turned into something rare and more than merely human.... People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -Time"Piles on the suspense and romance." -USA Today"A literary phenomenon." -The New York Times"[Stephenie Meyer is] the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice." -Entertainment Weekly About the Author Stephenie Meyer is the author of the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, The Host, and The Chemist. Twilight has enraptured millions of readers since its publication in 2005 and has become a modern classic, redefining genres within young adult literature and inspiring a phenomenon that has had readers yearning for more. The series has sold 160 million copies worldwide and was made into five blockbuster feature films. Stephenie lives in Arizona with her husband. Her website is stepheniemeyer.com. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Twilight Saga White CollectionBy Stephenie MeyerLittle, Brown Books for Young ReadersCopyright © 2012 Stephenie MeyerAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780316243988 1. FIRST SIGHTMY MOTHER DROVE ME TO THE AIRPORT WITH THE windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt—sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka.In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. That was the year I finally put my foot down; these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, vacationed with me in California for two weeks instead.It was to Forks that I now exiled myself—an action that I took with great horror. I detested Forks.I loved Phoenix. I loved the sun and the blistering heat. I loved the vigorous, sprawling city.“Bella,” my mom said to me—the last of a thousand times—before I got on the plane. “You don’t have to do this.”My mom looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines. I felt a spasm of panic as I stared at her wide, childlike eyes. How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself? Of course she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid, there would be food in the refrigerator, gas in her car, and someone to call when she got lost, but still…“I want to go,” I lied. I’d always been a bad liar, but I’d been saying this lie so frequently lately that it sounded almost convincing now.“Tell Charlie I said hi.”“I will.”“I’ll see you soon,” she insisted. “You can come home whenever you want—I’ll come right back as soon as you need me.”But I could see the sacrifice in her eyes behin