Rose is shell shocked. Dimitri just tore her heart out. She needs an out.

Rose disappears from the Royal Moroi court, leaving her past behind her... sort of...

Now living amongst humans, Rose is rising the ranks of the police headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. She's finally starting to move on with her life, six years on from the worst year of her life.

But when disaster strikes her family, she is forced to reunite with someone she never thought she'd see again.

Can she battle through it this time? Will her new relationship survive? Will she be able to save her family?