The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Stephenie on how this novella came to be: I never intended to publish this story as a stand-alone book. I began this story a long time ago - before Twilight was even released. Back then I was just editing Eclipse, and in the thick of my vampire world. I was thinking a lot about the newborns, imagining their side of the story, and one thing led to another. I started writing from Bree's perspective about those final days, and what it was like to be a newborn.
This story is told in the voice of the teenage Bree, a newborn vampire whom we meet on page 569 in Eclipse. In the novella, Bree has been a vampire for three months.
