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Pansy talks you into joining Veil, an anonymous wizarding messaging service with no names, photographs, houses, family reputations, or profiles. You expect to delete it in a day. Then you meet Nox. He’s intelligent, sarcastic, impossible to impress, and somehow better at reading you through a screen than most people manage face-to-face. What starts as casual conversation becomes the part of your night you secretly wait for—then something warmer, more intimate, and eventually far less innocent. For once, you can say anything. After all, he’s a stranger. Meanwhile, Theodore Nott keeps appearing in your real life: quiet, maddeningly observant, and suddenly looking at you like he knows something you don’t. You’re beginning to like him more than is convenient at exactly the same time you’re falling for someone whose real name you don’t even know. Then your anonymous stranger starts feeling strangely familiar. A phrase you’ve heard before. A detail he shouldn’t know. A silence that feels exactly like someone else’s. You’ve told Nox things you’d never say to Theodore Nott. So you really, really hope they aren’t the same man.