At Hogwarts, secrets are power—and hers is deadly. A pureblood Slytherin with a sharp temper and a hidden heart, she carries a secret that no one can know: she is an unregistered Animagus. Her form is a black panther—silent, lethal, and impossible to tame. Only a small circle of friends knows. Only Mattheo Riddle has seen her first. In a hidden ruin called the Hollow, she can be herself, and he can be the only one she trusts. Slow burn. Secrets. Loyalty. And the quiet danger of letting someon
In a country built on blood, money, and silence, Mattheo Riddle is the rule everyone obeys and the nightmare no one survives. He is the youngest, richest, and most feared mafia boss to ever rise to the top—his name spoken only in whispers, his wrath written in bodies. Power bends to him. Governments negotiate with him. Enemies disappear.
she was never meant to be saved. A seventh-year Slytherin from a powerful pureblood family, she is delivered to the Dark Lord with her parents’ consent and reshaped into something useful. Placed under the Imperius Curse and handled by Mattheo Riddle, she is trained through control, repetition, and complicity—her will bent slowly, her identity preserved only so it can be overwritten. When she is given the Dark Mark, the curse is lifted. Freedom does not follow. Marked, conditioned
She was born into one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight — a pureblood family older than most of the stones that built Hogwarts. Power was not something she sought; it was something she inherited. Loyalty was not a choice; it was an expectation.