On January 15, 2014, Smith announced that she would be continuing to write her version of "The Vampire Diaries" before she was fired by Alloy. Smith would continue to write her books on Amazon Kindle as fan fiction and are not part of the official series. The "Evensong" arc would pick up where "The Return: Midnight" had left off and it takes place in an alternate world from the official series that follows "Midnight". The three titles in the "Evensong" trilogy include "Paradise Lost", "The War of Roses" and "Into the Wood". While the first two titles were released in 2014, "Into the Wood" has not yet been released as of January 2021. However L. J. Smith has revealed that the novel will be released via Kindle Worlds.