Amber is a young woman gripped by despair and thinks her life is pointless. What she doesn't know (but will soon discover) is that she's needed by a secret society of vampires who have discovered that Amber is the key to their survival.

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

The origin story of Jane and Alec and the life they had before they became the vampires we know from the Twilight series. Consumed unravels Jane's story, showing a sweeter and softer side of Jane before she was tainted by the Volturi.