𝘾𝙍𝙄𝙈𝙎𝙊𝙉 𝙑𝙊𝙒𝙎 ¹ || ᵉˡⁱʲᵃʰ ᵐⁱᵏᵃᵉˡˢᵒⁿ

Evangeline Esper Ellsworth was once bound by blood and love to the most ancient of immortals-wife to one Original, beloved friend to another. They were her family, her sanctuary. But love turned to ash, and loyalty was buried beneath betrayal. In the ruins, Evangeline vanished, slipping like smoke through the fingers of those who once held her dear.

For more than a decade, she wandered the corners of the earth, a ghost chasing distance, hoping it might dull the fury of the husband she fled-and the hybrid whose friendship had once felt eternal.

But peace is a fragile dream, easily shattered.

When Stefan Salvatore's call pulls her back to Mystic Falls, the name alone enough to stir old fears, she returns cloaked in caution, every step a calculated risk. The Mikaelsons are near, and danger follows in their wake like a shadow at noon.

Yet the heart is a wild, ungovernable thing.

Amid whispered threats, fractured vows, and sparks of a love she tried to forget, Evangeline finds herself drawn back into the rhythm of a life she once called her own-a life she may no longer be able to escape.