Life and Death

Life and Death is a novel for young readers by the American writer Stephenie Meyer, published in 2015. It is a retelling of Twilight in which the characters' genders are reversed.

Beau Swan moves from Phoenix to Forks to finish school with a father he barely knows, and on his first day he is surrounded by classmates who want his attention and by the Cullens, a family of unnervingly beautiful people who keep to themselves. Edythe Cullen sits beside him in biology and reacts to him with a hostility that has nothing to do with dislike; she is a vampire, he smells like food, and the rest of the novel is the two of them working out what to do about it. The book follows the first novel's plot closely: the discovery, the family, the baseball game in a thunderstorm, the tracker who hunts him, and the choice about what he wants to become. Meyer wrote it as a companion piece, and the concluding chapters differ from the original in what they decide for the narrator.

It was first published as one half of a flip book that paired it with Twilight, ten years after that novel appeared.