Caroline moved to Mystic Falls, with her mother, a strong, opinionated and independent teenager. She was greeted with open arms and all went well until she met the Originals. She was thrown into a blood sucking spiral of love, hate, fights, friendship, werewolves and vampires.

Caroline Forbes is unfamiliar to the city. Klaus Mikaelson is native to it. Caroline is attending college there so she can live the life dreamed of by every college student. Klaus is attending college there to fulfill his dream of art – without distractions. But when Caroline gets herself a dorm room with Klaus' sister, he finds that there is one distraction he can't ignore.