My mom ‘loved’ my dad, but she left him. My mom ‘loved’ me, but she abandoned me. Dimitri ‘loved’ me, but he left me. Christian’s parents loved him, but they became soulless monsters and tried to turn him into the same. Lissa ‘loved’ me but she threw me away. And I thought some small part of Adrian ‘loved’ me, until the day he hit me. Someone once said that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. I have to say that I disagree. Because I learned the hard way that LOVE is a four letter LIE. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* It has been 4 years since LS. Dimitri and Rose have broken up and Dimitri went to Russia while rose was sent out to Montana to teach at St. Vladimir. But not all is as it seems. When Rose is sent to retrieve Dimitri from Baia, he notices that she has changed. Her fiery temper is gone, she no longer laughs or has snarky comments. She flinches when he moves too quickly. Lissa has all but abandoned Rose due to spiritual darkness. Christian won’t go against Lissa. What happened to Rose?

THE POWERFUL BLEND OF HUMAN AND VAMPIRE BLOOD THAT FLOWS THROUGH DIMITRI BELIKOV MAKES HIM A DHAMPIR. HE IS DEDICATED TO A DANGEROUS LIFE OF PROTECTING THE MOROI FROM THE STRIGOI. Dimitri knows it's forbidden to love another guardian. Lissa--the Dragomir princess--always comes first. Unfortunately when it comes to gorgeous Rose Hathaway, some rules are meant to be broken. Then a darkness begins to grow in Rose, concerning Dimitri. Something strange is going on in St. Vladimir's, and Dimitri must find out before it's too late. He will have to choose between life, love and the two people who matter most... but will his choice mean that only one can survive? Follow Dimitri in the third Installment written by the original author Richelle Mead.