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VAMPIRE ACADEMY novels

by Richelle Mead:

Vampire Academy
Frostbite
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound

For my agent, Jim McCarthy.
Thanks for doing all the hard stuff.
These books couldnt happen
without you!

ONE

THERES A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN death threats and love letterseven if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.

Todays letter had been perfectly timed, not that I should have expected any less. Id read it four times so far, and even though I was running late, I couldnt help but read it a fifth time.

My dearest Rose,

One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. Its a shame, because if I could dream, I know Id dream about you. Id dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. Id dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.

Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imaginationwhich is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how itll be when I take your life from this world. Its something I regret having to do, but youve made my choice inevitable. Your refusal to join me in eternal life and love leaves no other course of action, and I cant allow someone as dangerous as you to live. Besides, even if I forced your awakening, you now have so many enemies among the Strigoi that one of them would kill you. If you must die, itll be by my hand. No one elses.

Nonetheless, I wish you well today as you take your trialsnot that you need any luck. If theyre actually making you take them, its a waste of everyones time. Youre the best in that group, and by this evening youll wear your promise mark. Of course, that means youll be all that much more of a challenge when we meet againwhich Ill definitely enjoy.

And we will be meeting again. With graduation, youll be turned out of the Academy, and once youre outside the wards, Ill find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. Im watching.

Love,

Dimitri

Despite his warm wishes I didnt really find the letter inspiring as I tossed it onto my bed and blearily left the room. I tried not to let his words get to me, though it was kind of impossible to not be creeped out by something like that. There is no place in this world you can hide from me.

I didnt doubt it. I knew Dimitri had spies. Since my former instructor-turned-lover had been turned into an evil, undead vampire, hed also become a sort of leader among themsomething Id helped speed along when I killed off his former boss. I suspected a lot of his spies were humans, watching for me to step outside my schools borders. No Strigoi could have stayed on a twenty-four-hour stakeout. Humans could, and Id recently learned that plenty of humans were willing to serve the Strigoi in exchange for the promise of being turned someday. Those humans considered eternal life worth corrupting their souls and killing off others to survive. Those humans made me sick.

But the humans werent what made my steps falter as I walked through grass that had turned bright green with summers touch. It was Dimitri. Always Dimitri. Dimitri, the man Id loved. Dimitri, the Strigoi I wanted to save. Dimitri, the monster Id most likely have to kill. The love wed shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think Id moved on. He was always with me, always on my mind, always making me question myself.

You look like youre ready to face an army.

I shifted out of my dark thoughts. Id been so fixated on Dimitri and his letter that Id been walking across campus, oblivious to the world, and hadnt noticed my best friend, Lissa, falling into step with me, a teasing smile on her face. Her catching me by surprise was a rarity because we shared a psychic bond, one that always kept me aware of her presence and feelings. I had to be pretty distracted to not notice her, and if ever there was a distraction, it was someone wanting to kill me.

I gave Lissa what I hoped was a convincing smile. She knew what had happened to Dimitri and how he was now waiting to kill me after Id triedand failedto kill him. Nonetheless, the letters I got from him every week worried her, and she had enough to deal with in her life without my undead stalker to add to the list.

I kind of am facing an army, I pointed out. It was early evening, but late summer still found the sun up in the Montana sky, bathing us in golden light as we walked. I loved it, but as a Moroia peaceful, living vampireLissa would eventually grow weak and uncomfortable in it.

She laughed and tossed her platinum hair over one shoulder. The sun lit up the pale color into angelic brilliance. I suppose. I didnt think youd really be all that worried.

I could understand her reasoning. Even Dimitri had said these would be a waste of my time. After all, Id gone to Russia to search for him and had faced real Strigoikilling a number of them on my own. Maybe I shouldnt have been afraid of the upcoming tests, but all the fanfare and expectation suddenly pressed in upon me. My heart rate increased. What if I couldnt do it? What if I wasnt as good as I thought I was? The guardians who would challenge me out here might not be true Strigoi, but they were skilled and had been fighting a lot longer than me. Arrogance could get me into a lot of trouble, and if I failed, Id be doing it in front of all the people who cared about me. All the people who had such faith in me.

One other thing also concerned me.

Im worried about how these grades will affect my future, I said. That was the truth. The trials were the final exam for a novice guardian like me. They ensured I could graduate from St. Vladimirs Academy and take my place with true guardians who defended Moroi from the Strigoi. The trials pretty much decided which Moroi a guardian would be assigned to.

Through our bond, I felt Lissas compassionand her worry. Alberta thinks theres a good chance we can stay togetherthat youll still be my guardian.

I grimaced. I think Alberta was saying that to keep me in school. Id dropped out to hunt Dimitri a few months ago and then returnedsomething that didnt look good on my academic record. There was also the small fact that the Moroi queen, Tatiana, hated me and would probably be going out of her way to influence my assignmentbut that was another story. I think Alberta knows the only way theyd let me protect you is if I was the last guardian on earth. And even then, my odds would still be pretty slim.

Ahead of us, the roar of a crowd grew loud. One of the schools many sports fields had been transformed into an arena on par with something from Roman gladiatorial days. The bleachers had been built up, expanded from simple wooden seats to luxuriously cushioned benches with awnings to shade the Moroi from the sun. Banners surrounded the field, their bright colors visible from here as they whipped in the wind. I couldnt see them yet, but I knew there would be some type of barracks built near the stadiums entrance where novices waited, nerves on edge. The field itself would have turned into an obstacle course of dangerous tests. And from the sound of those deafening cheers, plenty were already there to witness this event.

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