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The First Prisoner A thousand years ago, Tatia Petrova was the woman Elijah Mikaelson loved—and the woman Esther needed. When Tatia reveals that she is pregnant with Elijah’s child, Esther sees an opportunity. Tatia’s blood is the final ingredient she needs for her immortality spell, but allowing Tatia to live means risking the truth being exposed. So Esther creates a devastating lie, makes Elijah believe Tatia is dead, and secretly imprisons her in a magical world where time stands still. But Esther never anticipated that Tatia would give birth. The child survives, born with the immortality created by Esther’s magic. Frozen at the moment of birth, the infant cannot age or grow. When Tatia dies during childbirth, the child’s blood remains within her—and brings her back as a vampire. For nearly a thousand years, Tatia remains trapped, raising the only child she has left while desperately searching for a way out. Her baby never grows. Never changes. Never knows the world beyond the prison. Until Tatia finally escapes. She emerges into a modern world she doesn’t recognize, still carrying the same infant she gave birth to centuries ago. She doesn’t know that Esther’s children survived. She doesn’t know that the Mikaelsons became the world’s first vampires. And she certainly doesn’t know that Elijah—the man she loved and believed long dead—is still alive. Then she hears his name. And when Tatia finally comes face-to-face with Elijah, neither is prepared for the truth. He believes he watched her die. She believes he died centuries ago. And neither knows that Esther’s lie has been hiding something far greater than Tatia’s survival. Because the child in Tatia’s arms is living proof that the Mikaelson family has a history that was never meant to be discovered. After a thousand years, the first prisoner has finally come home.