Kenzie Gilbert is dead. Gone is the mute, depressed teenage girl she was before she met Stefan Salvatore. Left behind was the young woman she became, who is crazy in love and co-dependent on her green-eyed boyfriend. What stood between them was his vampirism and her mortality. But for no longer. The last thing Kenzie remembered was her deja-vu accident, the car she was in with Matt, crashed on the same bridge her parents went over before plummeting into the quarry and drowning. Just like that time, Kenzie survives. When she shouldn't. Stefan didn't jump in and save her this time. Instead, the vampire blood running to her veins did. Now she's a vampire herself and everyone, including herself is struggling to come to terms with it. Stefan is working on a secret plan that has Kenzie feeling rejected and neglected. Her siblings can't bear to be near her and her friends are just as uncomfortable with the way she's changed. While Damon seems to be the only one there for her. His eyes seem to sparkle and his smirk starts ooze sexiness. Everything is changing. Cures are revealed, sire bonds make another appearance, the originals settle in town, and another curse rears its ugly head. Kenzie and Elena have finally spread their wings, and started separate paths. Elena's path to become a teenage statistic is opposite of Kenzie's path to embrace life as the vampire twin. ~BOOK 4 OF 8~

Kenzie Gilbert is engaged to Stefan Salvatore after many ups and downs. The two spent the summer making-up from their last break-up. Now it's back to reality. They're engaged with no rings, no save the date, and no wedding in sight. However, there's no time to dwell on why they haven't committed to their engagement. School is back in session and Whitmore College takes the gang by storm with ancient witches, imprisoned vampires for research, and psychotic immortals coming out of the shadows. The true testament of Kenzie and Stefan's relationship comes in the form of kidnapping. Kenzie and Stefan may be fighting like dogs, but they would die, and more importantly, kill for each other. Stefan gets rescued, but the problems they face continue to pile up. Stefan loses his memory, Damon has a past friend that threatens to send him back to his bad behavior, Matt and Elena embrace parenthood, Katherine faces mortality and demise, Mystic Falls becomes a supernatural-free town, and everyone's lives are at risk once again. Though Kenzie is still adjusting to her life as a vampire, she'll use all of new powers to her advantage for good and bad to try to keep the people she loves, safe. Even if that means being known as the coercive twin. ~BOOK 5 OF 8~

Kenzie Gilbert has just been through a summer of hell and heartbreak. Her fiance and two of her best friends are lost on the "other side" with no way back in sight. Kenzie is holding out hope that the love of her life will return to her. At the same time, she's turned to desperate ways to cope and grieve without Stefan. Yet, when luck finally strikes and Stefan, Damon, and Bonnie return; there is no relief. Stefan comes with secrets that breaks Kenzie's hear more. Damon faces betrayal when he finds out Alaric compelled Elena to not love him anymore. And Bonnie arrives with murderous sociopath on her tail, named Kai, who is ready to ruin the lives on anyone he sets his sights on. Kenzie spends her sophomore year of college being tortured by Kai, watching Caroline fall in love with Stefan, bonding with Elena over her nephew, and depending on the other men in her life: Damon, Tyler, and Enzo. Kenzie's friendships take center in her life as her world starts spinning out of control. Just as she and Stefan get a hold of their relationship, one last devastating blow comes. With another anguishing lost, Kenzie suffers loneliness again, solidifying herself to be the tormented twin. ~BOOK 6 OF 8~

Kenzie Gilbert has slipped on some mom jeans and put off wedding planning. Legally, she's already a Salvatore, but at heart, she won't take the name until there's an official wedding. Besides she and Stefan are still reconciling from their most recent breakup. However, now there's a toddler in the picture. Kenzie is raising her nephew as her own, for her twin, who is a real life sleeping beauty. While Stefan's mother, Lily Salvatore has secretly moved into town with her family of heretics, including a woman from Stefan's past that has a secret that would add to the growing tension of his marriage with Kenzie. However, it's not the only past, present or future dilemma they face. Damon starts a war with the heretics, the town residents are compelled to evacuate, Lily's abusive husband disrupts a truce, Enzo gets entangled with an elite group that awakens a powerful vampire huntress awakens, and the surprise of Alaric's twins surviving changes the lives of many. Time starts to fly, decisions need to be made, and consequences will have to be faced. Kenzie's life is presently in turmoil and her future seems bleak, without a plan that will please all the ones she loves. The odds stack against Kenzie and Stefan, but she is determined to do whatever it takes to keep her marriage alive because he's the only thing she'd never give up on. He's the love of her life and she's the possessive twin. ~BOOK 7 OF 8~