Callie Forbes was insane...or, at least, that's what everyone thought since she was locked up after claiming a werewolf killed her best friend. Now, after two years, she's back in Mystic Falls and ready to continue on with her life. Unfortunately, no one in Mystic Falls stays in the dark for long.

Stella Donovan left home the second she turned eighteen in order to escape the responsibilities that should have never been hers in the first place. But everyone comes home eventually and Stella has no idea what Mystic Falls has changed into in her absence; there's a darkness in the idyllic little town- a darkness that Stella will soon realize she had no chance of escaping.