MASQUERADE

Schuyler and Oliver have traveled to Venice, Italy in search of her grandfather, Lawrence Van Alen, who is said to have the answers she is looking for to solve the mysteries of the Silver Bloods. It is only at the last minute that they meet him, only to the disappointment that Lawrence doesn’t believe that he can help them, so they dejectedly return to New York. As they return, the Blue Blood community is preparing for the annual Four Hundred Ball, the grandest event in all of New York City—possibly the world—that renowned class, beauty, money, and blood—Blue Blood. Schuyler attends the ball with the hopes of seeing Jack Force, her forbidden crush, only to see that he barely acknowledges her. After the ball, however, Schuyler receives an invite to a secret Blue Blood masquerade ball, covertly organized by none other than Mimi Force. Schuyler attends, again with the hope of seeing Jack. When she is kissed at the party by a mysterious masked vampire, she presumes that it is Jack, only to later suspect it was someone else. Bliss Llewellyn meets a masked gentleman, hoping that he is Dylan Ward, who had disappeared during the speculated return of the Silver Bloods.