Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules.
She
broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir’s Academy with her
best friend and last surviving Dragomir Princess, Lissa. She broke the
law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor,
Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world,
risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir
guardian to come.
Now the law has finally caught up with Rose- for a crime she didn’t even commit. She’s in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She’ll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.
But the clock on Rose’s life is
running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her
back… and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question
is, when your life is about saving others, who will save you?



