Kai Parker didn't die, he simply faked his death. Five years later he has a brand new identity and is the powerful leader of his own coven that is currently prevailing over all others in existence. But nothing, especially power, is really set in stone until you shed some blood. Or a lot.

Bonnie Bennett has left her life in Mystic Falls and career as a witch in the past. She's now trying to live her life in peace in a new town where no one knows about her or what she is, flowing through life without a purpose or direction, pretending that the emptiness inside her doesn't exist.

But it's the hunting season and her peace is about to get shattered.

Every decade an oracle picks out eight different names, each one part of a notorious witch bloodline that is the source of a great power. The leaders of the covens each strive to hunt down and "collect" them. In the end, the winner, the one who has each one of the "missing pieces" at his mercy, will merge with all eight of them and consume their magic, killing them in the process and turning himself into the most powerful sorcerer to whom all others must knee for the next ten years.