Vintage 2008 Publication of The Host by Stephenie Meyer Hardcover

This vintage 2008 Hardcover edition of 'The Host' by Stephenie Meyer. Is the authors first time writing science fiction and it was a huge success with it now being a TV show on Apple TV. Newly inserted in her human host -- adding just a silver glimmer to her borrowed eyes -- Wanderer is ready to experience another planet. A small tentacled, worm-like creature, she's lived a long time, taking over the bodies of many beings in the universe. The aliens always come en masse and quietly, only to live in the peaceful, orderly way once they have control. Wanderer thus begins her quiet new life on Earth, but finds she can't shake her human host Melanie's powerful thoughts and feelings. (Most beings give up their bodies quickly, but not Melanie.) Melanie's memories of her still-human brother Jamie and boyfriend Jared become so strong for Wanderer that she becomes almost as obsessed as Melanie with finding them. She's near death from thirst in the desert when she finally discovers Jared and Jamie with a whole colony residing in secret caves. And of course they take one look at her eyes, see an alien instead of Melanie, and nearly kill her/them on the spot. How can she convince Jared and Jamie that Melanie is still in there? And that her/their strong feelings for Jared and Jamie have changed everything?