He admits he loves her and regrets losing her, but refuses to take another man’s girlfriend. In one of the rooms, Dimitri attempts to comfort her and tells her not to blame herself. She becomes distraught as the group heads to a hotel to recover. Rose battles with Victor, and in a spirit-induced rage, she inadvertently kills him.

Rose, Dimitri, and Sonya quickly find Victor and Robert and fight them to get Jill back. The process involves taking a series of tests to prove she is worthy of the throne, and after she passes, there is a huge debate among the Moroi about whether she can actually be Queen. While at Court, Lissa is in the running for Queen, despite being ineligible as the result of being without a quorum. This further confuses Rose about Dimitri's true feelings for her.īack at Court, Lissa, Christian, and Adrian try looking for Tatiana's murderer and discover unsettling information about the Queen, her lover Ambrose, and Adrian's own mother, Daniella. Upon questioning, Sonya also reveals to Rose that her and Dimitri’s auras shine extraordinarily bright when they are around each other, which shows they are in love. Using her spirit abilities, Sonya is able to locate where the brothers are hiding Jill and relay the information onto Rose. Not long after they arrive, Guardians raid the Mastrano house, forcing them to scatter and flee again and creating the opportunity for Victor and Robert to kidnap Jill. After recovering from the initial shock of being restored, Sonya leads them to Jillian Mastrano’s house in Michigan, who is revealed to be the illegitimate child of Eric Dragomir. The Dashkov brothers invade Rose’s dreams, and they later meet up with her at Sonya's house in Kentucky, where Robert changes her back into a Moroi by staking her with a silver stake infused with spirit.

Later, they find out the sole person who holds the information needed to find Lissa’s sibling: Sonya Karp, who was once a teacher at St. For safety, Sydney takes them to the Keepers, a strange group of Moroi, Dhampirs, and humans. However, she insists on leaving and helping out, but after Dimitri halts her escape, Rose convinces him and Sydney to look for Lissa’s half-sibling. They continue traveling until reaching West Virginia, where Rose discovers she is to be kept in a motel until her friends back at Court can clear her name. Dimitri takes Rose out of Court, and they drive for hours until they reach Sydney, who is also aiding in the escape. Rose is soon broken out of prison by Mikhail, Eddie, Adrian, Abe, and Dimitri.

During Queen Tatiana’s funeral, bas-reliefs outside the church suddenly blow up, causing chaos and acting as a distraction for the guardians. The novel begins with Rose in her prison cell contemplating the charges brought against her and occasionally using the bond to slip into Lissa's mind to view goings-on at Court.

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