Once eighteen-year-old Connor Moore stumbles across an almost human species, he is faced with history's darkest secret, a daunting future, and a love life he can't even begin to explain. Concealed throughout the pages of time, there has been a powerful race of human-like creatures manipulating mankind. This Elite race is made up of five ruling families, who have obeyed The Law and remained content to keep their identities a mystery. Now after centuries of secrecy, an ancient foe is forcing them out of hiding. When a dark-haired mystery woman named Laren crosses Connor's path his life is turned upside down. Soon Connor is taken on a heart-pounding journey that leads to a startling discovery of who he really is and a daunting future of what he is to become.

❝You have to find that place that brings out the human in you. The soul in you. The love in you.❞ For Alyna Salvatore, life in New York City was peaceful and calm. After all, she'd had spent over a century living among its people. It was the perfect place to escape the hell she left behind all those years ago- Mystic Falls. She has not made herself known to her brothers, as they still believe she is dead, nor does she plan to. But one day, she is taken and brought back to the place that broke her heart as a young naive girl- all at the orders of the infamous hybrid original, Niklaus Mikaelson. She will make a new friend, toy with her brothers and rekindle old flames. But, will she still be ruthless, merciless, and revenge seeking? Or will someone get to her and undo the pain? Will she save everyone from a ravenous, chaotic evil that will torment everything she begins to care about? Read on to find out. © @TheMikaelsonDiaries 2016