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When Ariana Gilbert returns to Mystic Falls after a year in a rehabilitation camp for troubled teens, she doesn't come back healed.
She comes back hollow.
Twin sister to Mystic Falls' golden girl, Elena Gilbert, Ariana has always been in the background. She was the addict, the disappointment, the one who never quite fit in. After Elena exposed her addiction to their parents, Ariana was shipped off. With her return, she carries the weight of betrayal alongside grief for the parents they both lost.
The only person who ever truly saw her was Tyler Lockwood.
Her first crush.
Her first kiss.
Her first love.
But, time is cruel.
And he is now dating her best friend, Vicki Donovan.
And Ariana feels more alone than ever before.
When strange things begin happening around her; objects catching fire when her emotions are high, vampires unable to compel her, haunted by strange dreams, hearing whispers in ancient languages she's never heard before, healing quicker than any human should. Ariana discovers she may not be entirely human.
Ariana Gilbert is not a doppelgänger.
She's something else.
Something born from the same magic that created the first vampires.
As Tyler battles his own curse and Ariana fights her addiction, the two are drawed together by something neither of them can explain.
And when the Mikaelsons come to town, they don't just want Elena.
They want Ariana too.
Because she isn't just the doppelgänger's twin.
She's something the Original family has been searching for for a thousand years.