A fifth Twilight
June-7-2010
Entertainment
Stephenie Meyer is releasing a fifth
Twilight novel – a spin-off novel about a character in
Eclipse – for free online. The 192-page story, called
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, was released on June 5 in hard-copy and will soon be available to read exclusively online at
breetanner.com from noon (US time) on June 7 until July 5.
The story follows the newborn vampire Bree, who is created by Victoria to kill the Cullen family in the third installment of the hugely popular
Twilight series. The 36-year-old author said that she originally created the vampire drama about the darker side of the world Bree inhabits as a short story until it “grew longer than I anticipated” and it was no longer suitable to include as planned in
The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide. Meyer also recommends reading the novella before seeing the movie, which hits cinemas in June. "Her story is a nice complement to
Eclipse," Meyer wrote on her official web site. "It explains a lot of the things that Bella never knew.”
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is also available on
Amazon.