Everyone remembers the Boy Who Lived. No one remembers the girl who survived beside him. Seven years after Dumbledore sent Harry Potter’s twin sister away to Salem, he summons her back to Hogwarts. Quiet, practically American, and hiding extraordinary power, she is sorted into Slytherin—and catches the attention of the last person she expected. Severus Snape has never liked Potters. This one, however, is nothing like her brother.
Sadie Mercer was raised an orphan in New Orleans. At eighteen, she discovers three rather inconvenient facts: her parents are alive, Harry Potter is her twin brother, and apparently everyone in Britain has an opinion about how she should feel about it. Dragged to Hogwarts to investigate an object touched by Voldemort, Sadie wants nothing from the family who abandoned her—and even less from the Order determined to discuss it. Fortunately, Severus Snape appears to hate family reunions almost as much as she does, until she arrives. Then, he finds he’d attend one every day. Unfortunately, something followed Sadie across the Atlantic. And it has no intention of letting her go.
You have survived curses, war, and magic that should have killed you. You have stood beside Alastor Moody, protected Harry Potter, and somehow done the impossible: taught Severus Snape how to love something living instead of mourning the dead. Then, at the Battle of Hogwarts, you do what no one else could. You kill Lord Voldemort. It should have been the end. Instead, the dead begin to return. And among them is the one woman you could never compete with. Lily Potter is alive. Perhaps some ghosts were never meant to stay buried.
For seventeen years, Isolde Gormenghast has been missing. When a mysterious German order finally returns her to Britain, the girl who enters Hogwarts is nothing like the sister Harry Potter never knew he had. She barely speaks. She remembers no family. And she carries something no one dares ask her to surrender. Then Isolde enters a room with Severus Snape—and every flame in Hogwarts turns silver. Fate may have chosen them. Whether Isolde will ever choose him is another matter entirely.
