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Everyone knows Vittoria Zabini goes through husbands like other women go through handbags. Except this time, the husband seems to be staying. After meeting at an exotic potions convention, Vittoria and Marcel Devereaux elope barely a month later. Terribly romantic—unless you’re Marcel’s sixteen-year-old daughter, whose entire life has just been relocated across the Atlantic. Raised between the bayous and bustling streets of New Orleans, Y/N Devereaux isn’t thrilled about trading Louisiana for an English estate, a new stepmother, and a stepbrother she never asked for. Blaise Zabini, however, turns out to be the one complication she actually likes. Over a summer of shared secrets, merciless teasing, and escaping their parents’ newlywed affection, they become best friends. By September, calling each other brother and sister feels natural—which is fortunate, because Y/N is transferring to Hogwarts for sixth year. And Blaise’s friends are very interested in meeting her. With a sharp mind, a wicked little Southern drawl, and a talent for finding trouble, Y/N has little intention of reshaping herself to suit British pureblood society. Her family’s closely guarded magical traditions, rooted in Louisiana Voodoo, only give her new classmates more to whisper about. Blaise can explain the moving staircases and warn her about his friends. He can’t prepare them for her—or predict which friendships might become something more. Between unfamiliar magic, late-night adventures, fierce loyalties, and some inconvenient feelings, Hogwarts is about to become considerably more interesting. Choose your love interest—or let your heart lead you toward several—and decide who earns a place in your new life. The Slytherin boys won’t know what hit them.