Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi (the peaceful, mortal vampires) escaping from their boarding school St. Vladimir's Academy and living discreetly within our world with her best friend Lissa Dragomir, a royal Moroi. But they soon are dragged back to the Academy in Montana and rediscover the dangerous hierarchy within it, along with a plenty of lies, rumors and secrets.