Gemma Holland is twenty-two years old, freshly graduated from LSU, and newly arrived in London after a decision that was equal parts whim and long-held fascination. She is from Louisiana to her core—soft Southern accent, careful manners, and an instinctive warmth that lingers in everything she does. She misses home deeply: her parents, Daniel and Elizabeth, whom she adores and speaks to often, and her younger siblings, Grayson and Hattie, whose absence tugs at her more than she expected.
In Loyalist Boston on the brink of revolution, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth “Libby” Roswell is raised to value propriety, obedience, and security above all else. As her family presses her toward a sensible marriage, Libby finds herself torn between comfort and desire, drawn to forbidden affections that challenge her loyalty, her class, and everything she has been taught. In a world where love itself can be dangerous, Libby must decide whether a careful life is worth the cost of her heart.
The French coast is all pale sand and blue skies, the kind of place where everything feels temporary in the best way. Élodie Beaumont meets him there by accident—barefoot, hair twisted up with a silk ribbon, sleeves rolled to her elbows as she laughs with her younger sister.
Set in 1925, the story centers on a powerful circle of sixth-year Slytherins—wealthy, pure-blood, and impeccably raised—who rule Hogwarts through charm, secrecy, and influence. By day, they are the picture of refinement and propriety; by night, they host jazz-soaked parties, break rules behind locked doors, and indulge in scandals no one dares speak of aloud. In a world where public virtue is mandatory and private transgression is expected, reputation is everything, and discretion determines who