A vow to a brother quite possibly dead. A plan thwarted by a brother most hated. Valerie Inverno has been aimlessly searching for her brother since he was captured and imprisoned in 1932 by a secret vampire society. Through her decades long search, she has clung onto the one thing left to remember him by- his ring. Even this is ripped from her clutches though when a chance meeting with the ever-impulsive Damon Salvatore causes a whirlwind chain of events that drop her into the heart of Mystic Falls, and into the sights of a hunter. Damon could turn out being the key to everything; the key to her survival in Mystic Falls and the key to finally reuniting with her long-lost brother.