Twilight author, Stephenie Meyer chose to swap the characters’ genders for the bonus content included in the novel’s 10th anniversary special edition.
According to Good Morning America, the bonus material is titled Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined and features Bella Swan as a young boy named Beau, Edward Cullen as a woman named Edythe and Jacob as Julie.
Meyer told GMA that she chose to give life to this concept in response to criticism that the series portrays Bella as a “typical damsel in distress.”
"It's always bothered me a little bit because anyone surrounded by superheroes is going to be ... in distress. We don’t have the powers. I thought, 'What if we switched it around a bit and see how a boy does,' and, you know, it’s about the same,” the author said.
The special content which tells the story through Beau’s perspective, was intended to be a chapter or two, but it ended up being over 400 pages. Meyer said it was “really fast and easy” to write the story and her hope is that “younger readers will be reintroduced” to the story.
GMA tweeted a picture of the front and back covers of the special edition.
Last month, Meyer announced the special edition would be published to celebrate the novel’s 10th anniversary. It went on sale Oct. 6.