High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vampire Academy is a best-selling series of six young-adult paranormal romance novels by American author Richelle Mead. It tells the story of Rose Hathaway, a seventeen-year-old Dhampir girl, who is training to be a bodyguard for her Moroi best friend, Vasilisa "Lissa" Dragomir. In the process of learning how to defeat Strigoi (the evil undead vampires) in St. Vladimir`s Academy, Rose finds herself caught in a forbidden romance with her amazingly sexy instructor, Dimitri Belikov, while having an unbreakable bond with Lissa.