The Devil You Know

Vivienne Sinclair learned a long time ago that leaving Mystic Falls was easier than surviving it.

She had been born there in 1842, raised alongside Damon and Stefan Salvatore, and buried there before she was ever supposed to die. By the end of 1864, the girl she had been was gone, replaced by something she didn't understand-and the three inseparable children who once believed nothing could come between them had been scattered across an eternity.

So Vivienne left.

More than a century later, she returns to find Mystic Falls pretending its monsters exist only in old stories. Stefan is home. Damon is exactly as infuriating as she remembers. And walking through the halls of Mystic Falls High is a girl wearing the face Vivienne hoped never to see again.

Elena Gilbert may not be Katherine Pierce, but Vivienne knows better than anyone that history has a habit of repeating itself.

Because Katherine wasn't the beginning of Vivienne's story.

And Damon Salvatore was never quite the end of it.

Some histories refuse to stay buried.

And in Mystic Falls, the devil you know is usually the one you loved first.