Set before the events of Vampire Academy. Before the retrieval of Vasilisa Dragomir and her dhampir friend Rosemarie Hathaway, Dimitri Belikov became a guardian and killed his first Strigoi. Dimitri Belikov One-Shot!

With the war over, things begin to go back to normal in all parts of the world. But Tessa and Cade Yeager struggle to return to the old life they once had. And while Tessa prepares for college, Bumblebee visits an old friend of the Autobots'.

Dimitri Belikov takes Tasha's offer, leaving Rose and the St. Vladimir gates behind. Rose will do anything to get him back, but from the looks of it, Dimitri is happy. So when Rose decides she is going to break away from the academy, and Lissa, she takes an offer to be guardian to a high-class family living up in the Montana mountains. But things never go as planned.