Olivia grew up, raised in the finest of high society, receiving the best education money could buy.  She was introduced at court at a very young age and even met Darius Kaur once or twice before the age of twenty.  Alexander Turpin arranged for a marriage between his daughter and the son of his cousin, a very wealthy boy named Jonas Mayenca.  The marriage was set for the week after Olivia’s twenty first birthday and it seemed that Olivia and Jonas actually liked one another.  Kaur was determined to Embrace Olivia on her twenty first birthday, but in the weeks leading up to that day, a Brujah rival of Kaur’s caught wind of his intentions and decided to screw him over.

As Olivia and her parents were riding back to their country estate one evening, the Brujah attacked the carriage.  The footman and coachman managed to get away, but Olivia’s parents were brutally slaughtered in front of her and Olivia was Embraced.  The Brujah, having no real desire to be associated with an illegally sired childe, abandoned Olivia near the edge of a forest.  He went on to Embrace Jonas Mayenca as well, worried that Kaur might change his plans and Embrace the boy instead.

She was discovered by an independent Gangrel elder named Areous a few nights later.  Although Areous knew full well that she was Brujah, he adopted her, breaking with Gangrel traditions to help her in the transition from mortal to vampiric life.  She proved a valuable asset to Areous defending him in both social and physical confrontations.

Together, Olivia and her adoptive Sire traveled Europe.  Although an independent, Areous’ business was in mediating between Camarilla and Sabbat factions in an effort to minimize Masquerade breeches that would draw the attention of vampire hunters.  He had an enemy, a vampire hunter, who had been chasing him for many years.  Olivia was helpful in these endeavors but she soon became restless and parted from her mentor, on good terms, to try and find her actual Sire.

In Spain, Olivia chanced to meet Darius Kaur.  He offered her membership to the Camarilla and mentorship, but she declined.  Enraged, he tried to blood bind her.  She promptly diablerized him and fled the country.  It was widely held in the Primogen Counsel that he had been diablerized by Olivia’s sire and no blood hunt was called as most of the Primogens wanted Darius dead anyway, due to his social manipulations during the Inquisition that got many of their ghouls killed.

Olivia returned to Areous in 1780 after years of her fruitless search for her Brujah sire.  Together, they returned to London where Areous continued his work with Olivia’s help.  Later, the two of them traveled to Virginia and Olivia took off, on a quest for Golconda.  Years later, Olivia gave up on finding peace and resolved, instead, to search for her Sire again.  A tip from a Nosferatu friend told her that he had arrived in the Americas.

As she continued searching, she was frequently called upon by Areous to do some scouting of the vampire scene.  She would dutifully report back to him, but in Manhattan in 1790, a Camarilla Gangrel intercepted one of her communications.  Mistaking her and Areous for anarchs, he torpored Olivia, but the Sheriff, a friend of Areous, hid her body until everyone was certain she was dead.  In 1804, Areous finally arrived to claim and revive Olivia.  Her name was changed to Denise.

Deeply traumatized by her experiences, for a very long time Denise refused to leave Areous’s side.  Finally, in the early 1920s, she departed for Chicago, on a tip that her Sire was to be found there.  She never managed to track him down.  During the 1970s, Areous caught wind of what was happening on the vampire scene in Atlanta.  He set Denise up, working for the Keeper of Elysium in a bar called the Dancing Knight in order to get reports about the situation. 

Eventually, the bar was burned down and Denise left.  She moved to Ohio in 1992 and opened her own bar, the Diamond Tavern, on reports that her Brujah sire was in town.  She has been there ever since, occasionally reporting to Areous and still looking for her Sire.  Denise will not consent to let her bar become Elysium.  Instead it seems to be the local hangout for the Independents, particularly the Gangrel.  Her loyalties lie with the Gangrel of the city, though she makes no pretenses about actually being a Gangrel.