The first book in Richelle Mead’s brand-new teen fiction series – set in the same world as Vampire Academy.When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the final place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Hand Springs, California. But at their brand-new school, the episode is only simply starting.Populated with brand-new faces aswell as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all of the friendship, romance, fights and betrayals that made the #1 NY Occasions bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive – this time around inside a part-vampire, part-human placing where the stakes are sometimes higher and everyone’s out for blood.