TL

To the wizarding world, Isabella Gaunt and Draco Malfoy are the perfect pure-blood couple—beautiful, wealthy, powerful, and destined to rule Britain’s oldest magical families together. Their upcoming wedding is celebrated as the event of the century, and every public appearance convinces the world they’re deeply in love. Behind closed doors, however, they are strangers. Bound by an arranged marriage decided when they were only eight years old, Draco and Isabella have spent their lives misunderstanding one another. Draco has secretly loved Isabella for as long as he can remember but hides his feelings behind cold distance, convinced she could never love him after years of watching her highly publicized relationships. Isabella, desperate to be loved, mistakes his silence for rejection and slowly falls into a deep depression, hiding her panic attacks, nightmares, and loneliness behind the bright smile that made her the wizarding world’s golden girl. As their wedding draws closer, two people who have always belonged to one another must overcome years of silence, heartbreak, and misunderstanding before it’s too late—or risk spending the rest of their lives trapped in a marriage where both believe they are unloved.