NOT FOR SALEThis PDF File was created foreducational, scholarly, and Internetarchival use ONLY.from this text or its distribution.With utmost respect and courtesy to theauthor, NO money or profit will ever be madefor more e-books, visit www.intexblogger.com New MoonbyStephenie Meyer ContentsPREFACE1. P A R T Y2 STITCHES3. THE E N DOCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBERJANUARY4. WAKING U P5. CHEATER6. FRIENDS7. REPETITION8. ADRENALINE9. THIRD W H E E L10. THE MEADOW11. C U L T12. INTRUDER13. KILLER14. FAMILY15. PRESSURE16. PARIS17. VISITOR18. THE FUNERAL19. H A T E20. VOLTERRA21. VERDICT22. FLIGHT23. THE T R U T H24. V O T EEPILOGUE TREATY Text copyright © 2006 by Stephenie MeyerAll rights reservedLittle, Brown ard CompanyHachette Book Group USA1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at www.lbteenscomFirst Edition September 2006The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons,living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the authorMeyer, Stephenie, 1973–New Moon a novel / b) Stepheme Meyer–1st ed p cmSummary When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than riskrevealing 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 terriblew a y sISBN-13 978-0 316-16019-3ISBN-10 0-316-16019-9[1 Vampires–Fiction 2 Werewolves–Fiction 3 High schools–Fiction 4 Schools–Fiction 5Washington (State)–Fiction ] 1 TitlePZ7 M57188New2006 [Fic]–dc22 20060123091098 7 6 5 43 2 1Q-FFPrinted in the United States of America For my dad, Stephen Morgan–No one has ever been given more loving and unconditionalsupport 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 PREFACEI FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING nightmares, the onewhere you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fastenough. My legs seemed to move slower and slower as I fought my way through the callouscrowd, 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 racingto 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 wouldbe different if she weren't trapped by the brilliant sunlight; only I was free to run across thisbright, 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 knewI was too late–and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing atthis, I forfeited any desire to live.The clock tolled again, and the sun beat down from the exact center point of the sky. 1. PARTYI WAS NINETY-NINE POINT NINE PERCENT SURE I WAS dreaming.The reasons I was so certain were that, first, I was standing in a bright shaft of sunlight–thekind of blinding clear sun that never shone on my drizzly new hometown in Forks,Washington–and second, I was looking at my Grandma Marie. Gran had been dead for sixyears now, so that was solid evidence toward the dream theory.Gran hadn't changed much; her face looked just the same as I remembered it. The skin wassoft and withered, bent into a thousand tiny creases that clung gently to the bone underneath.Like a dried apricot, but with a puff of thick white hair standing out in a cloud around it.Our mouths–hers a wizened picker–spread into the same surprised half-smile at just the sametime. Apparently, she hadn't been expecting to see me, either.I was about to ask her a question; I had so many–What was she doing here in my cream?What had she been up to in the past six years? Was Pop okay, and had they found each other,wherever they were?–but she opened her mouth when I did, so I stopped to let her go first.She paused, too, and then we Goth smiled at the little awkwardness."Bella!"It wasn't Gran who called my name, and we both turned to see the addition to our smallreunion. I didn't have to look to know who it was; this was a voice I would knowanywhere–know, and respond to, whether I was awake or asleep… or even dead, I'd bet. Thevoice I'd walk through fire for–or, less dramatically, slosh every day through the cold andendless rain for.Edward.Even though I was always thrilled to see him–conscious or otherwise–and even though I wasalmost positive that I was dreaming, I panicked as Edward walked toward us through theglaring sunlight.I panicked because Gran didn't know that I was in love with a vampire–nobody knewthat–so how was I supposed to explain the fact that the brilliant sunbeams were shatteringoff his skin into a thousand rainbow shards like he was made of crystal or diamond?Well, Gran, yon might have noticed that my boyfriend glitters. It's just something he does inthe sun. Don't worry about it…What was he doing? The whole reason he lived in Forks, the rainiest place in the world, wasso that he could be outside in the daytime without exposing his family's secret. Yet here hewas, strolling gracefully toward me–with the most beautiful smile on his angel's face–as if I were the only one here.In that second, I wished that I was not the one exception to his mysterious talent; I usuallyfelt grateful that I was the only person whose thoughts he couldn't hear just as clearly as ifthey were spoken aloud. But now I wished he could hear me, too, so that he could hear thewarning I was screaming in my head.I shot a panicked glance back at Gran, and saw that it was too late. She was just turning tostare back at me, her eyes as alarmed as mine.Edward–still smiling so beautifully that my heart felt like it was going to swell up and burstthrough my chest–put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.Gran's expression surprised me. Instead of looking horrified, she was staring at mesheepishly, as if waiting for a scolding. And she was standing in such a strange position–onearm held awkwardly away from her body, stretched out and then curled around the air. Likeshe had her arm around someone I couldn't see, someone invisible…Only then, as I looked at the bigger picture, did I notice the huge gilt frame that enclosed mygrandmother's form. Uncomprehending, I raised the hand that wasn't wrapped aroundEdward's waist and reached out to touch her. She mimicked the movement exactly, mirroredit. But where our fingers should have met, there was nothing but cold glass…With a dizzying jolt, my dream abruptly became a nightmare.There was no Gran.That was me. Me in a mirror. Me–ancient, creased, and withered.Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly lovely and forever seventeen.He pressed his icy, perfect lips against my wasted cheek."Happy birthday," he whispered.I woke with a start–my eyelids popping open wide–and gasped. Dull gray light, the familiarlight of an overcast morning, took the place of the blinding sun in my dream.Just a dream, I told myself. It was only a dream. I took a deep breath, and then jumped againwhen my alarm went off. The little calendar in the corner of the clock's display informed methat today was September thirteenth.Only a dream, but prophetic enough in one way, at least. Today was my birthday. I wasofficially eighteen years old.I'd been dreading this day for months. All through the perfect summer–the happiest summer I had ever had, the happiest summeranyone anywhere had ever had, and the rainiest summer in the history of the OlympicPeninsula–this bleak date had lurked in ambush, waiting to spring.And now that it had hit, it was even worse than I'd feared it would be. I could feel it–I wasolder. Every day I got older, but this was different, worse, quantifiable. I was eighteen.And Edward never would be.When I went to brush my teeth, I was almost surprised that the face in the mirror hadn'tchanged. I stared at myself, looking for some sign of impending wrinkles in my ivory skin.The only creases were the ones on my forehead, though, and I knew that if I could manage torelax, they would disappear. I couldn't. My eyebrows stayed lodged in a worried line over myanxious brown eyes.It was just a dream, I reminded myself again. Just a dream… but also my worst nightmare.I skipped breakfast, in a hurry to get out of the house as quickly as possible. I wasn't entirelyable to avoid my dad, and so I had to spend a few minutes acting cheerful. I honestly tried tobe excited about the gifts I'd asked him not to get me, but every time I had to smile, it feltlike I might start crying.I struggled to get a grip on myself as I drove to school. The vision of Gran–I would not thinkof it as me–was hard to get out of my head. I couldn't feel anything but despair until I pulledinto the familiar parking lot behind Forks High School and spotted Edward leaningmotionlessly against his polished silver Volvo, like a marble tribute to some forgotten pagangod of beauty. The dream had not done him justice. And he was waiting there for me, justthe same as every other day.Despair momentarily vanished; wonder took its place. Even after half a year with him, I stillcouldn't believe that I deserved this degree of good fortune.His sister Alice was standing by his side, waiting for me, too.Of course Edward and Alice weren't really related (in Forks the story was that all the Cullensiblings were adopted by Dr. Carlisle Culler and his wife, Esme, both plainly too young tohave teenage children), but their skin was precisely the same pale shade, their eyes had thesame strange golden tint, with the same deep, bruise-like shadows beneath them. Her face,like his, was also startlingly beautiful. To someone in the know–someone like me–thesesimilarities marked them for what they were.The sight of Alice waiting there–her tawny eyes brilliant with excitement, and a smallsilver-wrapped square in her hands–made me frown. I'd told Alice I didn't want anything,anything, not gifts or even attention, for my birthday. Obviously, my wishes were beingignored. I slammed the door of my '53 Chevy truck–a shower of rust specks fluttered down to the wetblacktop–and walked slowly toward where they waited. Alice skipped forward to meet me,her pixie face glowing under her spiky black hair."Happy birthday, Bella!""Shh!" I hissed, glancing around the lot to make sure no one had heard her. The last thing Iwanted was some kind of celebration of the black event.She ignored me. "Do you want to open your present now or later?" she asked eagerly as wemade our way to where Edward still waited."No presents," I protested in a mumble.She finally seemed to process my mood. "Okay… later, then. Did you like the scrapbook yourmom sent you? And the camera from Charlie?"I sighed. Of course she would know what my birthday presents were. Edward wasn't theonly member of his family with unusual skills. Alice would have "seen" what my parentswere planning as soon as they'd decided that themselves."Yeah. They're great.""I think it's a nice idea. You're only a senior once. Might as well document the experience.""How many times have you been a senior?""That's different."We reached Edward then, and he held out his hand for mine. I took it eagerly, forgetting, fora moment, my glum mood. His skin was, as always, smooth, hard, and very cold. He gave myfingers a gentle squeeze. I looked into his liquid topa2 eyes, and my heart gave anot-quite-so-gentle squeeze of its own. Hearing the stutter in my heartbeats, he smiled again.He lifted his free hand and traced one cool fingertip around the outside of my lips as hespoke. "So, as discussed, I am not allowed to wish you a happy birthday, is that correct?""Yes. That is correct." I could never quite mimic the flow of his perfect, formal articulation.It was something that could only be picked up in an earlier century."Just checking." He ran his hand through his tousled bronze hair. "You might have changedyour mind. Most people seem to enjoy things like birthdays and gifts."Alice laughed, and the sound was all silver, a wind chime. "Of course you'll enjoy it.Everyone is supposed to be nice to you today and give you your way, Bella. What's the worstthat could happen?" She meant it as a rhetorical question.
