Basic info
Name: Grace Balestrieu
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 130lb
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Green
Type/Clan: Ventrue Vampire
Apparent Age: Mid twenties
Actual Age: 28
Appearance: Grace appears to be a caucasian woman in her mid-twenties.  She has a bob-cut with bangs, and typically wears a dark grey pant-suit with a white blouse and penny loafers.  She carries a handgun in a shoulder holster, with the serial number scratched off.  She is a professional agent, approaching a situation with a considered and attentive attitude.

History
Human Life
Grace Balestrieu was born in Louisiana to a blue-collar family.  Her father was a sheriff's deputy in her county, and all she wanted to do growing up was become a cop like her father. After graduating highschool and acing her SATs, Grace followed in her fathers footsteps by joining the FBI.  She was an average student at the FBI Academy, and graduated in the middle of her class.  She joined the Miami FBI office shortly afterwards, joining the homicide team.

Embrace
In 1996 Grace was 25 years old, and the FBI agent supporting a federal investigation into disappearances of girls from upscale colleges across Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama.  Unfortunately for her, she met the monster responsible; her sire, the Ventrue kindred Anton Moreau.

Anton had a taste for blood that could only be satiated by the women he preyed on.  As Grace followed the trail of disappearances, Anton watched - ever more concerned by her careful investigations.  Unfortunately for both Anton and Grace, the prince and his sheriff found out about Grace's investigations.  To preserve the masquerade the prince ruled that Anton embrace Grace, and that she be made kindred and sent to destroy all evidence and notes of her investigation.  If Anton had not been an elder vampire, the prince would have simply given him the final death.  Anton was therefore sent out, furious that he would have no say in who he sired.

Grace had stayed late working on her case, and was walking from her car to the pokey little apartment over when she heard foot steps following close behind her.  As she turned she was knocked to the ground by Anton and mercilessly dragged into a waiting truck.  Grace was embraced brutally there, too terrified to scream before she slipped into unconsciousness.

She woke, groggy and thirsty.  As her vision cleared she saw that she didn't recognise her surroundings.  Startled she looked around, seeing that she was in a windowless room with a terrifying scowling man covered in drying blood.  He introduced himself, explaining that he had made her kindred and that he was her sire.  After throwing a kine to her to feed on, Anton forced Grace to destroy her investigation using his dominate discipline.

Tonight
Grace has no love for Anton, and the feeling is mutual.  Anton only provides basic things for his childe Grace, but only because the prince makes him.  Since becoming kindred Grace has sought to preserve her humanity by working to stop the excesses of other kindred, protect kine, and preserve the masquerade.  By doing this, Grace seeks a sense of redemption for the part she played in protecting Anton.

Grace has inherited her sire's need for the blood of young women, and she is not entirely comfortable with hunting for them.  As a human she hated clubs and bars, and identified as straight.  Despite it's pleasures for Grace, the nightly hunt is a confusing, awkward and difficult experience.