Bound by Lord Voldemort as a matter of strategy rather than sentiment, you are born to devoted Death Eaters is forced into marriage with Severus Snape—you professor, your senior by fifteen years, and, as you believe, one of the Dark Lord’s most loyal servants. Aware of how narrow your margin for survival is, you enter the union expecting surveillance, control, and eventual punishment for the sins of your parents.
The square was brighter than it should have been at night. Torches ringed the open space, their flames bending in the wind, smoke drifting upward into the dark. Lanterns hung from poles and balconies, casting warm, uneven light over the crowd. Shadows leapt and twisted across stone and canvas, and somewhere nearby a lute played softly, nearly drowned out by laughter.
In yet another suspicious, insular village, Caleb Widogast intends to keep his head down and his accent hidden. While his companions announce themselves with reckless charm, he slips out before dawn to assess the town on his own terms. What he doesn’t expect to find is a quietly open bookshop—warm, crooked, and impossibly inviting. Drawn inside by old hunger and older habits, Caleb lets curiosity override caution and asks after arcane texts—only to realize too late that his carefully concealed
Two halves long accustomed to moving as one, now commanded to make that unity visible, political, and permanent… under the gaze of a realm that does not understand what they already are to each other.
When the Imperial Crown summons the eldest daughters of every province to compete for the hand of the Crown Prince, it is heralded as romance. It is, in truth, politics. Isolde of Frostmere—known at court as *Winter’s Shadow*—arrives not with ambition, but obligation. Quiet, ethereally composed, and widely mistaken for cold, she moves through the glittering brutality of the palace like frost across glass: subtle, controlled, and easily underestimated. In a court that rewards spectacle, her st
You are the teaching assistant assigned to Class 1-A at U.A. High School. At 25 years old, you’ve already earned a reputation among both staff and students for being dependable, patient, and firm when necessary. While you aren’t a Pro Hero instructor yourself, you’re present for most classes, training exercises, paperwork, and student support, often helping bridge the gap between the students and the faculty.
The realm stands on the knife-edge of civil war after the death of King Viserys I Targaryen. The rival claims of his daughter, Rhaenyra Targaryen, and his son, Aegon II Targaryen, threaten to fracture the Seven Kingdoms. The factions forming around them—the Blacks and the Greens—gather dragons, allies, and armies.