Beautiful, terminally ill, Yolanda is abandoned by her partner to die in the woods near Forks, but is stumbled upon by Rosalie and Emmett while out hunting.  The kind-hearted Cullen family take this former journalist under their protection & care; see how she learns what they are and that there really are vampires in this world.  Her story plays out in a way she could never have imagined. 

What would you do if you discovered vampires truly existed?  What if you were offered immortality? What if a chance encounter brought you the love you had always dreamed of?

All your Cullen family favorites are very much involved in this story.  An Irish vampire comes calling to add a new twist to Cullen life. 

This story is mostly told from Yolanda's POV as a newcomer to the world of vampires.  Sometimes the story is told from the perspective of one of the others as they watch her adapt to her surroundings.

Story rated NC-17 for explicit lemony scenes, language and dark issues.
It has been migrated across from the FanFiction & TWCS sites, where you may know me as Cullenfest :D

“Is she even alive, Emmett? I can’t hear a heartbeat from here.”  Rosalie stood there, hands on hips, glaring at me like it was my fault we'd stumbled upon a body in the woods. She clicked her tongue impatiently.

We’d been out for a couple of hours hunting and making out gloriously and lustily in the bracken. When the day had started, bright and early, I’d never imagined it would take this turn of events.

Vampires don’t like surprises!

Opal Maxwell lives in a tiny town near Cincinnati, Ohio. Her home is frequented by a coven of vampires who have discovered her secret. She desperately wants to get out of this way of life, but thinks the only way is to go back to her old life, which is simply not an option. Watch as one of our favorite Cullens meets her, rescues her and brings her back to the family, to show her the way she’s living is not the only way.

I know there are a lot of canon purists out there, so this story likely isn’t for you. In my mind, the whole reason for fan fiction is to take the characters, scenes, and locations we love and mix them up into an amalgamation of our own. NaNoWriMo also known as National Novel Writing Month is an event that takes place every November, where all the entrants are to write 50,000 words in 30 days. It’s tough, but it’s fun and I highly recommend it. I did this last November, and chose to pluck my main character from the story I wrote and throw her into the world of Twilight. See what happens when the Cullens realize they’re not the only kind of immortals out there.

Stephenie Meyer is the stage, I’m merely a player.

I write my stories in present tense, so if you see sections in italics and past tense, they are flashbacks.

Jasper Whitlock, MJ, CSA was born in 1844 and changed in 1863.

Mary Alice Brandon was born Oct 31, 1980.

She was his salvation; he was the other half of her soul. How would their love survive the chaos and inhumanity of his bloody past and the innocent fragility of her human heart?

NC-17 for mature themes and eventual possible lemons.

Lovely banner by JLove34.  Thanks so much!

Isabella Swan just wants some adventure in the woods. Little does she know, all that wandering has consequences...

Izzy Swan was a good girl until she fell in with the wrong crowd. Determined to reform her troublesome daughter, Renee sends her to Forks to live with her father. Izzy was determined to serve her sentence and get back to Phoenix as soon as her mother would allow it. Those plans all changed when she met one Edward Cullen and her life was turned upside-down by the secret she couldn’t have imagined he held back.

Edward and Bella share a class at the University of Washington-and not much else. She's shy and reserved as she adjusts to her new life in Seattle. He's angry and isolated because of his upbringing in LaVerrot, a secretive, gated community. They're drawn together, but secrets of her past, and revelations of his pure lifestyle, threaten to keep them apart.

There is mention of sexual abuse and rape in this story. Please avoid if this is a trigger.

On Bella's first day of college, she's seated next to mirror image of her dead mother. In her quest to find out the truth behind the resemblance, she's drawn into a world she never knew existed

Without Bella's love, I can merely exist. Now that I've lost her, I am bound to wander this earth, alone and unchanging for eternity. - Edward, attempting to be noble, leaves again after the Night of Tears. Now Bella must run after him and piece her broken vampire back together. When they reunite, can they begin to open up to each other and through honest conversations, start to build a stronger relationship? Eclipse/AU.

What if Bella and Carlisle discovered that they WERE bisexual and decided to explore their sexuality more? A story for those who wanted both slash and femslash in the original story and to those who are interested in reading this. Rated M for LEMONS, language, threesomes, foursomes, and possible orgies. Bella/Carlisle because they are the main pair. Romance/Humor/Friendship/Family.

Bella is part of a very powerful, very old Coven of vampires who move to the small, nondescript town of Forks, not knowing all that awaits her there: danger and romance in an unexpected form, as well as truth where she thought she already knew what such a thing was. Is the man she wants really the better choice, or is the man she hates the one she should be running to rather than from?

Sometimes we don't do as we're told, and sometimes we only see what we want to.

A "Blood and Chocolate" take on Twilight with traditional vampire values and non-excruciatingly-painful vamp-biting. BxE, all BPOV

A big thank you to paydayoo for offering to make this banner for me

Just a little Holiday fluff. O/S.

When Bella returned to Forks it wasn't only because her mother wanted to travel, but because her father was dying. She took care of him while she finished highschool, and fell madly in love with Edward Cullen. After her graduation, she was shortly married and returned home with child after her honeymoon, only to have one last night with her father. Bella was left with all her father had owned, including the deed to a boarding house in the town their family originated from, Eyphah, and decides to reopen it. Five years later the renovations are done, repairs made, and Bella's family has moved in. Little did she know, however, that the house held a dark past that wasn't quiet ready to let go, and neither are the past residents.

What happens when one of the unfriendly roommates bond with their young daughter?

In Hebrew, the name Eyphah means "darkness" or "gloomy"