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Blue Blood history there was disagreement
within the Conclave of Elders. Bu t John Carver lost the White Vote, as the Conclave chose Myles
Standish, thereby confirming their faith in Mich ael once again. The Carvers lost their governing
position in the Conclave, their lone opposing voice silenced under the Regis’s ironfisted rule.
As the years went by, th e Blue Bloods grew comfortable, sa tisfied, fearless, and proud. They
amassed vast wealth and influence in the New World that rivale d the grand palaces and empires they
had built in the Old. The Silver Bl oods had neither been seen nor heard from since Roanoke. As far as
the ruling Conclave was concerned, Croatan were a myth; their existence legislated out of Blue Blood
history. In New York City, the Conclave leadership established the Committee, under whose aegis the
vampires ran the Board of Trustees of the New Yo rk Blood Bank, among other educational institutions
and charitable causes, as the Blue Bloods continued to advance their miç€es ran div> legiss rssion to
bring art, light, truth, and justice to the human world.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NEW YORK . . .
Four hundred years after the disappearance of the Roanoke colony, the mysterious attacks on the
vampires began again. In New York City, Blue Blood victims were being taken during their most
vulnerable period, their adolescence, before they are fully in control of their powers. Aggie Carondolet,
a student at the Duchesne School, and four other teenagers, were fully consumed to Dissipation, their
life force drained from their veins. Half-blood vampire Schuyler Van Alen, along with her human Conduit, Oliver Hazard-Perry, and
fellow Blue Blood Bliss Llewellyn, attempted to solve the murders and the disappearance of their
friend Dylan Ward, who was charged with the crime. Schuyler’s investigation brought her in contact
with her secret crush, Jack Force, and to the mali cious attention of his twin sister, Mimi. The Force
twins hailed from the riches t and most powerful Blue Blood family in the city. Their father, Charles
Force, was the latest reincarnation of Mi chael, the vampires’ immortal leader.
Schuyler learned the truth about the Silver Bloo ds from her grandmother Cordelia Van Alen, who
was fatally injured after a Silver Blood ambush. Fo llowing Cordelia’s last wish, Schuyler left for
Venice to find her exiled grandfathe r. Lawrence Van Alen returned to New York to tell the Coven the
same thing he had told th em back in Plymouth as John Carver: he suspected that one of the oldest
families of the Conclave had be en Corrupted, and was hiding a powerful Silver Blood—perhaps the
most powerful Silver Blood of all. After Aggie’s death, the Carondolets called for a White Vote to replace Charles Force, who was
then the Regis of the Coven, their leader. They we re unsuccessful in their attempt. Like the Carvers
centuries before them, the Carondolets were promptly banished fr om the council. Charles Force refused
to believe that the Silver Bloods had returned. He dismissed the deaths as random anomalies, not the
work of their old, mythical foes.
But he could not stop the Committee from calling in the Venators, the Conclave’s secret police
force, to investigate the murders, sending one of them to enroll at Duchesne, the elite private school
that many of the victims had attended. Kingsley Ma rtin, the Venator assigned to the mission, was
ordered to discover who among the young Blue Bloods had been drawn to the Dark Matter, a sign of
Silver Blood Corruption. Mimi Force was the strongest suspect. A Silver Blood attack at the Repository of History, the very center of the Blue Bloods power, left
the Chief Warden murdered. Mimi was charged with the crime and brought to fa ce a blood trial. Only a
vampire with Gabrielle’s power would be able to clear her by reading the tr ue memories embedded in
her blood. Schuyler, as Gabrielle’s daughter, agreed to perform this act. In the blood memory, Schuyler
discovered that Kingsley Martin, the Venator and allegedly a reform ed Silver Blood, was the true
culprit, and that Mimi was innocent. Schuyler also found out that Jack Force returned her feelings for
him. But this discovery was complicated by the fact that she had recently performed the Sacred Kiss
e€ Sacred tor„with Oliv er Hazard-Perry, marking him as her human familiar, bound to her by blood
and love.
Under Lawrence’s influence, and af ter the embarrassment of the blood trial, the Conclave called for