New Moon

By

Stephenie Meyer

Contents

PREFACE

1. PARTY
2 STITCHES
3. THE END
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY
4. WAKING UP
5. CHEATER
6. FRIENDS
7. REPETITION
8. ADRENALINE
9. THIRD WHEEL
10. THE MEADOW
11. CULT
12. INTRUDER
13. KILLER
14. FAMILY
15. PRESSURE
16. PARIS
17. VISITOR
18. THE FUNERAL
19. HATE
20. VOLTERRA
21. VERDICT
22. FLIGHT
23. THE TRUTH
24. VOTE
EPILOGUE TREATY

new moon


Text copyright ? 2006 by Stephenie Meyer
All rights reserved
Little, Brown ard Company
Hachette Book Group USA

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First Edition September 2006
The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is

coincidental and not intended by the author
Meyer, Stephenie, 1973?New Moon a novel / b) Stepheme Meyer?1st ed p cm
Summary When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are

vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is
drawn into a cult and changes in terrible ways
ISBN-13 978-0 316-16019-3

ISBN-10 0-316-16019-9
[1 Vampires?Fiction 2 Werewolves?Fiction 3 High schools?Fiction 4 Schools?Fiction 5 Washington
(State)?Fiction ] 1 Title

PZ7 M57188New2006 [Fic]?dc22 2006012309
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Printed in the United States of America

For my dad, Stephen Morgan?
No one has ever been given more loving and unconditional
support than I have been given by you.



I love you, too.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as
they kiss, consume.

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI

PREFACE

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING nightmares, the one where you
have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough. My legs seemed to
move slower and slower as I fought my way through the callous crowd, but the hands on the huge clock
tower didn't slow. With relentless, uncaring force, they turned inexorably toward the end?the end of
everything.

But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save
something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

Alice had said there was a good chance we would both die here. Perhaps the outcome would be
different if she weren't trapped by the brilliant sunlight; only I was free to run across this bright, crowded
square.

And I couldn't run fast enough.

So it didn't matter to me that we were surrounded by our extraordinarily dangerous enemies. As the
clock began to toll out the hour, vibrating under the soles of my sluggish feet, I knew I was too late?and
I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at...

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