Caroline has just got everything she could ever wish for, Klaus is by her side, and inside her stomach is a bundle of joy she never thought she'd receive, and she's safe and sound back in Mystic Falls. Little does she know that Klaus' paranoid behaviour is not unfounded as Caroline's bliss is interrupted by an old friend making a reappearance, and tearing Caroline's world apart. With the intoduction of many old faces, Klaus begins to suspect the people closest to him are conspiring against him to take him down. But when the true source of this new evil is unveiled, they'll all be wishing that they'd never gone chasing the shadows of their nightmares... And Caroline will wish her dreams never had come true...