Crimson & Gold || Stefan Salvatore

Stefan Salvatore came back to Mystic Falls to find a ghost.

He didn't expect to find his pulse.

For 145 years, Stefan Salvatore has lived as a man under siege, his humanity a fragile thing kept behind walls of discipline and blood-soaked regret. He returns to his childhood home seeking Elena Gilbert-the girl who wears the face of his past. He seeks redemption. He seeks the familiar architecture of a love he can understand.

But the town of Mystic Falls has its own memory, and it's held in the hands of Sierra Lau.

The heiress to the ancient, aristocratic von Ascherberg legacy, Sierra is everything Stefan shouldn't want. She is the sun to his shadow-the Head Cheerleader with a magnetic laugh, a fierce loyalty to her best friend Caroline Forbes, and a heart that doesn't know how to protect itself.

While Stefan is the Ripper's leash, Sierra is a girl who lives like an act of defiance against the world that tried to extinguish her at birth.