The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

This is the story of the next generation of supernatural beings at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. Nina Chase and Klaus Mikaelson's children, Hope and Kenner Mikaelson; Alaric Saltzman's twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman; and other young adults come of age in the most unconventional way possible, nurtured to be their best selves . . . in spite of their worst impulses. Will these young witches, vampires and werewolves become the heroes they want to be or the villains they were born to be?