The TV adaptation of Vampire Academy is right around the corner. After debuting the first teaser at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Peacock released the official Vampire Academy trailer on Wednesday, August 17, above. And Rose Hathaway takes the spotlight as she fights to protect her best friend, royal vampire Lissa Dragomir.

From executive producers Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre (both of The Vampire Diaries) comes a story of friendship, romance and danger. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter vampire society. One as a powerful royal, the other a half-vampire guardian trained to protect against the savage “Strigoi” who threaten to tear their society apart. That is, if royal infighting doesn’t do the job first.

Sisi Stringer and Daniela Nieves star as Rose and Lissa, the two best friends primed to change their supernatural world for better or for worse. Rose is a vampire-human hybrid known as a Dhampir. Fiery and outspoken, she’s is a true fighter in spirit and in practice. Lissa is a Royal Moroi vampire. Growing up the younger sister to the heir apparent, Princess Vasilisa Dragomir is a carefree, kind-hearted, royal princess uninterested in the political machinations of the Royal Court or the hypocrisy of Moroi royal society.

Joining them in the cast are Kieron Moore as Dimitri Belikov, André Dae Kim as Christian Ozera, J. August Richards as Victor Dashkov, Anita-Joy Uwajeh as Tatiana Vogel, and more. Scroll through the first photos from the series, below.