Rose gets into a war of words with Mia, her school enemy, where Mia reveals to Adrian that Rose's mother punched her in the face. Adrian too is a spirit-born and revels in this fact. He senses that she is shadow-kissed and that Lissa is Spirit-born. Rose bumps into Adrian Ivashkov, a royal Lord, who flirts with her and is intrigued by her. Thus, she begins to start unofficially dating Mason. She feels guilty because her heart lies with Dimitri but is determined to forget about him knowing that he is going to take Tasha up on her offer. The students are taken to a ski resort for Christmas where Rose grows closes to her friend Mason and realizes the extent of his affections for her. Rose, though grateful for the gift, is stunned and hurt by this revelation and so she dismisses her mother.

Rose then learns from her mother that Tasha has propositioned Dimitri into being her Guardian and also being with her sexually so that they can have kids together and further the dying-Damphir race. Later her mother comes by to give her a Christmas gift after the Christmas dinner where she gives Rose a 'Nazar (evil eye)' pendant. Rose provokes Janine's temper by bringing up her father and Janine retaliates by punching Rose in the eye. The next day, Rose finds out that Dimitri is still tired from driving Tasha to the stores so her mother is leading their extra training session. Rose enjoys Tasha's company and urges Dimitri to take her Christmas shopping. Rose meets Christian and Lissa ice-skating on the school grounds, where she meets Christian's aunt, Tasha Ozera, who has a beautiful but scared face due to fighting off Christian's Strigoi parents when they came seeking to turn him into Strigoi. She gets into a verbal attack with her mother during her Defence lesson where she implies that the only reason Janine kills Strigoi is in order to gain the 'Molnija marks' as a trophy. Rose harbours hostile emotions to her mother, who rarely visits and left her to the care of the school at an early age. Rose is finally settling into St Vladimir's for Christmas when all of a sudden her mother, the famous Janine Hathaway, visits her at school. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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