When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes...

Beacon Heights es un lugar en el que todo parece perfecto hasta que se produce un asesinato en la ciudad. Un grupo de amigas de la universidad, a las que todo el mundo considera como Las chicas perfectas, de pronto, se conviertirán en las principales sospechosas. La necesidad de descubrir la verdad saca a relucir, en una red adictiva de interrogantes y engaños, la cara oculta de la perfección.