sweetest desire - Elena Gilbert

❝Wherever there is desire, there is a flame. And wherever there is a flame, someone is bound to get burned.❞

Cassie Salvatore was never meant to survive 1864 at least, not like this.

Turned in secret by Katherine Pierce and left to die by the same family that swore to protect her, Cassie's beginning is soaked in betrayal, blood, and a love she was never supposed to have. Mystic Falls becomes a ghost she refuses to let haunt her, and so she runs-from her brothers, from her past, and from the girl who taught her how to love like a weapon.

Cassie learns how to survive. How to endure. How to bury the parts of herself that still remember what it felt like to be human.

Until a letter arrives.

A name. A face. Another doppelgänger.

Elena Gilbert.

Now Cassie is back in Mystic Falls under the lie of reconciliation. Cassie returns to the town that broke her only to find her brothers, Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore, still tangled in the same cycles of love and destruction she once fled. But Cassie isn't there for them. Not really.

She's there for Elena.

At first, it's a means to an end. But as Cassie gets tangled deeper into Elena's life the harder it becomes to remember why she came at all. The lines blur between duty and desire, past and present, love and obsession.