"Vampire Academy is an American best-selling series of six young-adult paranormal romance novels by author Richelle Mead. It tells the story of Rosemarie \"Rose\" Hathaway, a seventeen/eighteen-year-old Dhampir girl, who is training to be a guardian of her Moroi best friend, Vasilisa \"Lissa\" Dragomir. In the process of learning how to defeat Strigoi (the evil undead vampires) in St."@en .