BLOOD PROMISE

by RICHELLE MEAD

Book 4 in the Vampire Academy Series

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New softcover book measuring 23 x 15cm, published 2009, 512 pages.

Two races of vampires walk our world. The Moroi are alive and wield elemental magical, while the Strigoi are undead and evil - feeding on the innocent to survive. Rose Hathaway - a half-vampire with poor impulse control - is training to be a bodyguard for a Moroi princess. Learning to decapitate and stake is hard enough, but Rose's real danger may lie in an illicit romance with one of her instructors...

Book 4 Blood Promise

Love and Loyalty Run Deeper than Blood

The recent attack on St. Vladimir’s Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose’s neck: a mark that says she’s killed far too many Strigoi to count.

But only one victim matters . . . Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life’s vow to protect Lissa her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She’ll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?

Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa and Dimitri won't want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series.

Book 5 in the series, Spirit Bound, is due for publication in May, 2010.

About the author

Richelle Mead is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy books for both adults and teens.  Originally from Michigan, Richelle now lives in Seattle, Washington where she works on her three series full-time. Before becoming a writer, she considered a few different career paths. She received a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan, an MA in Comparative Religion from Western Michigan University, and a Master in Teaching (Middle & High School English) degree from the University of Washington. In the end, she decided writing was the way for her but believes all of her education prepared her for it.

In addition to the Vampire Academy series for Young Adults, Richelle is the author of 2 adult fiction series - the Georgina Kincaid series (Succubus Blues, Succubus on Top, Succubus Dreams, and Succubus Heat) which tells the humorous and heart-breaking story of a reluctant succubus who can't touch the man she loves without dire side effects, and the Dark Swan Series (Storm Born and Thorn Queen) which follows Eugenie Markham, a free-lance shaman who battles ghosts and fey that sneak into our world from the Otherworld. When an alarming prophecy suddenly makes her every Otherworldly creature's object of desire, Eugenie must dodge their advances while also fighting a dark power rising within her.

A life-long reader, Richelle has always had a particular fascination with mythology and folklore. When she can actually tear herself away from books (either reading or writing them), she enjoys bad reality TV, traveling, trying interesting cocktails, and shopping for dresses that she then hardly ever wears. She is a self-professed coffee addict, runs on a nocturnal schedule, and has a passion for all things wacky and humorous.

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Blood Promise Book 4 in the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead