Four years. That was how long Y/N and Mattheo Riddle had been together before everything finally fell apart. Everyone knows the reason they broke up. At least, everyone knows the version Mattheo tells. Y/N was too much. Too jealous. Too possessive. Too emotional. Too obsessed. She wanted to know where he was, who he was with, what he was doing. She needed too much of him, and eventually Mattheo claimed he couldn’t breathe around her anymore. So he ended it. For six months, Y/N tried to convince herself that he meant it. Mattheo didn’t make that particularly easy. For almost a year after the breakup, he continued seeing her in secret. He answered messages he shouldn’t have answered. He let her into places she shouldn’t have been. He gave her just enough affection to make her believe that perhaps the relationship wasn’t really dead. Then, eventually, he stopped. Or so everyone thought. At the end of fifth year, everything changed. At a Slytherin Quidditch celebration, Y/N walked into a party and saw Mattheo kissing Astoria Greengrass. It was the first time she’d actually seen him move on. And something inside her snapped. The girl who had once simply refused to accept that her relationship was over became something far more frightening over the following year. Her jealousy stopped being something her friends could laugh about. She began watching Mattheo constantly. Remembering every girl he spoke to. Noticing every party he attended. Keeping track of every rumour, every name, every glance. Girls who got too close began learning exactly how dangerous Y/N could become. And the people closest to her noticed. Pansy and Daphne hated what the obsession was doing to their best friend. They told her to move on. They begged her to stop talking about Mattheo. They dragged her away from situations before she could make them worse. But they never abandoned her. Because underneath everything, Y/N was still their girl.
The Girl Behind the Riddle Everyone at Hogwarts knows Mattheo Riddle. They know the reputation. The arrogance. The temper. The Quidditch obsession. The fights, the parties, the girls who have tried their luck and been turned away without a second thought. What they also know is that Mattheo has had a girlfriend for years. What they don’t know is what she’s actually like. Y/N Xavier has spent most of her life at Beauxbatons, growing up beneath the weight of one of the wizarding world’s most infamous pure-blood names. The Xavier family is wealthy, powerful and feared, with a history steeped in blood politics and Dark Magic. So when word spreads that a Xavier is transferring to Hogwarts for sixth year—and that she’s Mattheo Riddle’s girlfriend—people have expectations. They expect someone cold. Someone arrogant. Someone dangerous. Instead, they get Y/N. Sweet. Intelligent. Warm. Almost painfully kind. She knows more about magic than most students her age, understands things that would horrify other sixth-years and possesses enough power to defend herself if she ever needed to. She simply chooses not to. And perhaps the most confusing part? Y/N doesn’t seem to understand why everyone is so fascinated by the fact that she’s dating Mattheo Riddle. Because to her, he’s not Mattheo Riddle. He’s just Mattheo. Her boyfriend. The boy she’s loved for years. The boy who is completely, shamelessly obsessed with her. Mattheo has never hidden his relationship. He’s never entertained another girl, never acted single and never cared what anyone thought about how devoted he is to Y/N. His friends can call him whipped. They can laugh when she bosses him around. They can watch him become ridiculously affectionate the second she walks into a room. He doesn’t care. Because everyone else gets Mattheo Riddle. Y/N gets the boy underneath him. What she doesn’t know is that the two versions aren’t as simple as they appear. She knows the affectionate boyfriend. The
Y/N Swan disappeared from Forks at eleven years old. Not literally—her name stayed on school rolls, her room stayed untouched, her father kept living in the same quiet, rain-soaked house like nothing had changed. But in every way that mattered, she vanished. No phone. No emails. No real explanations. Just letters that arrived at strange times from a boarding school in Britain no one could properly verify, and a growing sense that something about her life no longer fit inside the world she was born into. Forks adapted without her. Bella grew up learning how to live in the silence Y/N left behind. Charlie learned how to stop asking questions. And Jacob Black… waited. Even when he didn’t know what he was waiting for. Because something about Y/N Swan was never meant to feel temporary. ⸻ When she comes back at sixteen, it isn’t like a reunion. It’s like a glitch in reality. Y/N returns older, sharper, quieter in a way that doesn’t belong to Forks. She walks into town like she’s stepping into a place she used to know, but doesn’t fully trust anymore. Her presence should feel familiar—but instead, it unsettles everything around her. Including the people who thought they knew her. Bella sees it first: the distance. The hesitation. The way her little sister looks at home like it’s unfamiliar ground. Like she’s constantly calculating something no one else can see. Charlie just wants things to be normal again. But nothing about Y/N is normal anymore. Not her silences. Not her reflexes. Not the way she reacts to things she refuses to explain. ⸻ And then there’s Jacob Black. The boy who used to be her constant. Her summer. Her laughter. Her safe place. Except when Y/N returns, Jacob doesn’t run to her like she expects. He doesn’t smile. He doesn’t joke. He doesn’t even acknowledge her the way she remembers him. He looks at her once—and something in him snaps so violently it changes everything he is. And then he walks away. No explanation. No closure
Every summer, the heirs of the most powerful wizarding families disappear to Tetiaroa. The Riddles, Notts, Berkshires, Zabinis, Malfoys, Kims, Xaviers, Parkinsons, Greengrasses and Rosiers have spent generations building wealth, influence and empires together. Their children have grown up together, surrounded by luxury, friendship and expectations of futures their families have quietly planned for them. But they’re older now. Marriage assumptions are becoming reality. Old friendships are changing. Some relationships are unexpected, some inevitable, and some were never what everyone thought. Then Natalia Xavier arrives a day late. She isn’t new to the boys. They’ve known her for years. She simply knows them in ways the girls never had the chance to. And somehow, the seventeen-year-old has five of the most reserved men in their world wrapped around her finger—Mattheo, Leonardo, Marvolo, Alistair and Theo. She’s also Mattheo Riddle’s girlfriend. While Natalia spends the summer arguing with her boyfriend, annoying her brother, provoking Valerian and effortlessly exposing sides of the boys nobody else has seen, the girls begin realising that they’ve misunderstood their own circle for years. Because beneath the wealth, romance and perfect summer lies something much darker. These families aren’t innocent. They’re simply very good at hiding it.
At Briar University, Y/N L/N thought she knew exactly what she wanted. Figure skating. Independence. A fresh start. Then she met Dean Di Laurentis. He’s a senior. She’s a freshman. He’s her sister’s friend, already tangled in a complicated history with someone else, and absolutely not someone she should be falling for. But somehow, between late-night texts, empty hallways, secret meetings and stolen moments, staying away from him becomes harder than staying on the ice. They tell themselves it’s nothing. Just friendship. Just curiosity. Just one little secret. Until the line between nothing and everything starts getting dangerously thin. Some things are easier to balance on ice than they are off it.
Y/N has never dated anyone. Not because she hasn’t had the opportunity. She simply has no interest in men—or relationships, romance, flirting, or anything else that comes with them. She’s perfectly content being single, and after years of watching her friends get themselves tangled up in romantic disasters, she’s more than happy to stay that way. Unfortunately, her closest friend group contains five boys. And one of them is Mattheo Riddle. Mattheo is everything Y/N dislikes about men rolled into one person: arrogant, cocky, shamelessly confident, irritatingly charming and far too aware of how attractive he is. He’s dated enough girls to have earned himself a reputation, and Y/N has spent years making it perfectly clear that she has absolutely no interest in becoming one of them. Their relationship has always been simple. They annoy each other. They argue. They insult each other. They laugh at each other’s expense. They’re friends because somehow, despite everything, they genuinely enjoy being around one another. But sixth year begins to change things. Not dramatically. Not all at once. There is no sudden realisation that they’re secretly in love. No instant attraction. No moment where everything changes. It starts with little things. A conversation that lasts longer than it should. Y/N voluntarily sitting beside Mattheo. Mattheo discovering that he actually enjoys talking to her when he isn’t trying to annoy her. Y/N laughing at something he says instead of telling him to shut up. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, she begins giving him something she’s never given him before: her attention. And nobody is more surprised by it than Mattheo himself. The problem? Just as Y/N begins letting herself become comfortable around him, Aurelia Rosier suddenly starts appearing everywhere. Aurelia has never really been part of their circle. She’s always been someone they knew, someone they occasionally saw at parties or around Slytherin, but never someone who
Natalia Thorne has spent her entire life chasing two things: an Olympic gold medal and a future in law. At eighteen, she’s already an Olympic silver medalist, a Harvard student, and one of the most promising figure skaters in the world. So when legendary three-time Olympic gold medalist Tara Hughes offers to personally coach her at Briar University, Natalia finally makes the decision to leave Harvard behind. Briar was supposed to be simple: study, train, recover, repeat. Then there’s the hockey team. More specifically, Dean Di Laurentis. Confident, charming, shamelessly flirtatious, and completely accustomed to getting attention, Dean isn’t prepared for the one girl at Briar who seems entirely uninterested in him. Natalia isn’t looking for a relationship. Dean isn’t used to being ignored. And unfortunately for both of them, they’re about to spend a lot of time on the same ice.
Everyone knows Bambi. The masked Polish artist has become one of the biggest musicians in the world, selling out stadiums, dominating charts and turning her iconic half-face deer mask into one of the most recognisable symbols in music. Nobody knows who she really is. They don’t know her real name. They don’t know her family. They don’t know what she looks like beneath the mask. But they do know Natalia Xavier. A famous heir to one of the world’s most powerful families, Natalia has grown up surrounded by wealth, influence and the kind of public attention that comes with the Xavier name. What nobody has ever figured out is that Natalia Xavier is Bambi. And right now, Natalia has something else the entire world is talking about. Her breakup with Mattheo Riddle. Their relationship was one of the most famous of their generation, so when they suddenly ended things, the media went insane. Rumours spread. Theories multiplied. Everyone wants to know what happened. Neither of them is talking. Now, only weeks later, Bambi is preparing to take the stage at Wembley Stadium for one of the biggest concerts of her career. The entire world will be watching. Nobody knows the woman behind the deer mask is the same woman they’ve been watching in the headlines. And nobody knows that the people closest to her are carrying a secret far bigger than the breakup itself.
