Elena Gilbert is a Homicide detective in the thriving city of Mystic Falls. In this world supernatural beings are well known for being around, though they do have laws that they have to abide by, and a hierarchy of their own. As long as stay in their own world they the humans have no qualms. But, when someone has stepped out of line, it throws Elena into a new world.

A singles cruise gone bad. Twenty-One year old Elena Gilbert finally accepts and invatation from her friends to go on a singles cruise, even though one of her biggest fears is of boats. When her worst fear comes true she finds herself on an island with five other people needing to learn to get along and survive.