The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, declaring the lives of Moroi college students, instructors, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi required some of their victims with them . including Dimitri.He’d rather die than be one of these, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa-the one she has sworn to protect regardless of what-and keep the guarantee Dimitri begged her to make way back when. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly demolish the person she loves most?