Meyer had hoped to have "Midnight Sun" published shortly after the release of "Breaking Dawn", but after an online leak of a rough draft of its first 12 chapters, Meyer chose to delay the project indefinitely. Upset by the release of a draft she called "messy and flawed", Meyer decided to pursue books unrelated to "Twilight" as a result of the leak. She made the unedited and unfinished manuscript of a lengthy character development exercise of "Midnight Sun" available on her website. The release of "Midnight Sun" was tentatively re-planned after re-visiting the "Twilight" series with "Life and Death", a gender-swapped retelling of the novel in 2015. However, the release of "" in 2015 halted and soured Meyer's plans to release the "Midnight Sun" because "Grey" was also told from the male perspective. Meyer stated in a New York Comic-con panel that it was "a literal flip the table moment", admitting that ""Midnight Sun" is kind of cursed". This led to the novel being on indefinite hold. According to an article from "The Guardian" in 2018, "Midnight Sun" was "no longer in the pipeline". However, in May 2020, it was announced that "Midnight Sun" would be released on August 4, 2020. Meyer mentions having several other book ideas on file, including a ghost story titled "Summer House", a novel involving time travel, as well as another about mermaids. In May 2008, Meyer's adult sci-fi novel "The Host", was released by the adult division of Little, Brown and Company. It follows the story of Melanie Stryder and Wanderer, a young woman and an invading alien "soul", who are forced to work as one. "The Host" debuted at No. 1 on "The New York Times" Best Seller list and remained on the list for 26 weeks. Despite having expressed intention to write a trilogy, with the second and third books being called "The Soul" and "The Seeker", respectively, Meyer has not published any follow-up novels to "The Host" . In April 2009, Meyer took part in Project Book Babe, a benefit designed to help pay her friend Faith Hochhalter's medical bills after Hochhalter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Meyer donated many advance reader copies and original manuscripts for auction. "The Host" was adapted into a film with Andrew Niccol directing and Saoirse Ronan starring as Melanie Stryder, Max Irons as Jared Howe and Jake Abel as Ian O'Shea.