The war may be over, but its aftermath is anything but clean. Draco Malfoy—once Voldemort’s feared strategist known as the High Reeve—has been released from Azkaban under strict conditions and forced into service with a covert Auror unit hunting the last remnants of the Dark Lord’s forces. His name inspires outrage, his past is unforgivable, and his freedom is fragile. Paired with him is a witch no one remembers from Hogwarts: a quiet half-blood Slytherin whose wartime history was erased by the