Three years after her parents’ death, Y/N’s brother Nolan suddenly returns—with a debt nearly a million dollars. The man he owes is Silas Vale, the powerful head of a criminal empire. Y/N intends to pay Nolan’s debt with her parents’ life insurance. She expects a ruthless man. Instead, she finds a calm, respectful stranger who never asks her to sacrifice anything. Then a simple meeting turns into a fake date. And somewhere between the lies, late-night conversations, and stolen glances, Silas begins to wonder if pretending is becoming something real.
He thought she was a witness. She was a survivor. Draco Malfoy is the ruthless heir to London’s most powerful criminal empire. When a deal goes wrong, he finds Y/N hiding inside the warehouse and assumes she’s connected to the rival organization. So he takes her. But Y/N isn’t hiding because she heard something that night. She’s hiding because she’s spent years surviving the people who held her captive—and she’s terrified of what will happen if she speaks. Draco sees a liability. Y/N sees another dangerous man. Neither expects the silence between them to become trust. And when Draco discovers that Y/N’s past is connected to his family’s darkest secrets, he has to decide whether to believe the woman he’s fallen for… or destroy her before she destroys the Malfoys.
She remembers the rain. The whiskey. His touch. His voice. Everything else became a blur. Three years later, she has a daughter, a life, and no reason to look back—until the stranger from that forgotten night reappears, and suddenly, the past isn’t nearly as buried as she thought.
Severus Snape has spent years loving Lily Evans. Y/N has spent just as long loving him. They grew up together, shared Hogwarts, secrets, arguments, and countless memories. Y/N has always been the person Severus turns to when he needs someone—just never the person he looks at the way he looks at Lily. She knows his heart belongs to someone else, but that doesn’t make loving him any easier. As friendships begin to change, rivalries grow fiercer, and the future starts pulling them in different directions, Y/N has to wonder how long she can remain beside the boy who will never realize that the person he’s been looking for has been there all along. Because sometimes the hardest love to let go of is the one that was never yours to begin with.
You survived one toxic relationship. You thought you finally found safe love—until becoming parents changed everything. Now you’re married to a man you still love, but every argument leaves you questioning yourself a little more. He’s always gaming, you’re always exhausted, and his temper is becoming harder to ignore. Then, through your favorite game, you meet someone who simply listens. A stranger who slowly becomes your safest place. But when friendship starts filling the emptiness your marriage created, you’re forced to confront a terrifying question: Are you falling for someone new… or finally remembering what it feels like to be yourself?
Severus Snape has never been known for his patience, kindness, or ability to tolerate people. So when a new professor arrives at Hogwarts and refuses to be intimidated by him, he immediately decides she is insufferable. Y/N thinks he’s arrogant. Snape thinks she’s irritating. Their arguments become routine, their encounters increasingly frequent, and neither can explain why they keep finding themselves in the same rooms long after everyone else has gone. But somewhere between sharp remarks, midnight tea, shared books, and moments of unexpected vulnerability, irritation begins to become something far more dangerous. Neither of them intends to fall in love. Especially not with each other.
