Stephanie Meyer, the author known worldwide for her Twilight saga, will publish a new novel, outside of its Twilight universe, by the end of this year, in November, whose title will be The Chemist. Its editor, Little Brown, announced last Tuesday that The Chemist, a spy thriller, will be released in the United States, and possibly also in the United Kingdom, on November 15.
The Chemist is the first contact for the author in adult fiction since in this book it will be the first time that the author deals with an adult protagonist. The main character has been deliberately not identified in the description selected by the publisher, although the name of her "unique talents" suggests that the author will stick with the supernatural genre.
Synopsis of The Chemist, Stephanie Meyer
“She worked for the United States government, but very few knew about it. She was an expert in her field, one of the darkest secrets of an underground agency, so she doesn't even have a name. And when they decided that she was a risk, they went for her without warning.
When her ex-coach offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the target on her back. But this means taking one of your former employees' last jobs. To his horror, the information he acquires only makes his situation more dangerous.
Resolving it to get rid of the threat, she prepares for one of the toughest fights of her life, but there she meets a man who only wants to complicate her survival. As his options rapidly decline, he decides to use his hidden talents in ways he never imagined. "
His best known saga: Twilight
La saga Twilight was the story that made Stephanie Meye famousr, relating the story of a young American named Bella Swan who fell in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. To the more than one hundred million copies sold all over the world was added the film adaptation starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
The other author's book: The Host
On the other hand, the author also published in 2008 a story about aliens, The host, the guest, which also sold several copies but, whose film version starring Saoirse Ronan, it was a failure compared to his famous saga. In this case, he only earned 64 million, which is nothing compared to the more than 500 million in the last installment of the Twilight saga.
However, The host is part of a trilogy of which, since the publication of the first book in 2008, there has been no news and the author does not seem to remember the existence of the other saga since, since the publication of her twilight saga and this book, Stephanie Meyer has only been publishing a series of novels derived from the Twilight universe. The Chemist will be his new novel not set in the twilight universe for over 5 years.