Regulus Black has wanted {y/n} for years, and being one of her closest friends has done absolutely nothing to make that easier. Unfortunately, Regulus is also an exceptional Legilimens with questionable self-control where she is concerned. During one painfully boring History of Magic lesson, temptation wins. He only intends to catch one passing thought. He is completely unprepared for what {y/n} is actually thinking about him.
Before transferring to Meridian University, y/n has one unforgettable night with a stranger she fully expects never to see again. Then she arrives on campus and discovers Regulus Black isn’t a stranger at all—he’s part of the very social circle she’s falling into. Between classes, frat parties, new friendships, hookups, and the increasingly inconvenient presence of her supposed one-night stand, transfer season just got complicated.
{y/n} needs a boyfriend. Temporarily. Luckily, her close friend Mattheo Riddle volunteers before she can even finish explaining the problem. It should be easy. They already know everything about each other, they’re comfortable together, and neither of them is secretly waiting for their friendship to become something more. All they have to do is convince everyone else. Hold hands. Sit a little too close. Flirt. Kiss occasionally. Let Mattheo take his role as fake boyfriend significantly more seriously than necessary. It’s funny at first. Then pretending starts feeling suspiciously natural. They agreed on how to fake a relationship. They never discussed what happens if they stop faking it.
{y/n} has spent years believing Mattheo Riddle is the one man in their circle who has never wanted her. With a ring on her finger and a future already decided, she has no reason to question it. Mattheo knows better.
{y/n} arrives at Hogwarts with a name everyone already knows and a personality nobody expects. Brilliant, powerful, famous, and somehow still made entirely of sunshine, she slips easily into a Slytherin friend group accustomed to considerably darker things. Theodore Nott has spent his entire life surrounded by his father’s expectations and a world he isn’t sure he wants. He doesn’t need {y/n} to save him. He just really fucking likes who he is when she’s around.
Two years ago, Y/n left Hogwarts for Beauxbatons without knowing if she’d ever come back. Now eighteen and returning for seventh year, she decides not to tell a single one of the friends she left behind. They remember Taylor—the beautiful, brilliant girl they grew up with and loved to death. What they aren’t prepared for is Taylor fucking Laurent walking onto the Hogwarts Express. Old friends. Old crushes. Two years apart. And absolutely nobody is ready for what happens now that she’s home.
{y/n} arrives at Meridian University expecting a fresh start. Tom Riddle, Mattheo Riddle, Regulus Black, Draco Malfoy, and Theodore Nott expect absolutely nothing—until she walks through the door. Five best friends. One devastatingly unexpected shared weakness. They all want her, they all intend to pursue her, and they’ve agreed to play fair. May the best man win.
Y/n’s wedding ends when another woman walks into the ceremony wearing her fiancé’s ring. Days later, she takes the honeymoon anyway—bringing her closest friends to Greece instead. Among them is Draco Malfoy, her lifelong best friend, the boy who grew up beside her, knows every version of her, and has secretly loved her for years. Everyone knows except Y/n. The problem? She may have been in love with him all along, too.
Draco Malfoy has always known he’ll marry Astoria Greengrass. Their families arranged it years ago, and after graduation, it becomes official—unless Draco chooses someone else first. Then {y/n} transfers to Hogwarts. He’s known her since childhood. He’s wanted her from a distance for longer than he’d ever admit. And now, for the first time, she’s close enough for him to do something about it. Draco makes his decision almost immediately. He’s not marrying Astoria. He’s marrying {y/n}. There’s only one problem: Someone should probably tell her that. And unfortunately for Draco, he isn’t the only person at Hogwarts interested in the new Laurent girl.
{y/n} and Regulus Black never chose each other—their families did. Their arranged marriage is practical, traditional, and, in their shared opinion, complete bullshit. They agree to play their parts, share a home, and make the best of it. Neither expects the person they were obligated to marry to become the person they would eventually choose.
You’ve been at Hogwarts for months, and somehow Cedric Diggory has never been more than a handsome face across the Great Hall. Then Hufflepuff plays Slytherin. One accidental glance from the Hufflepuff captain turns into another. Then another. Suddenly you’re noticing him in corridors, finding his eyes across crowded parties, and wondering exactly how long a gentleman needs before he takes the fucking hint. Cedric knows your reputation. You know his. Neither of you actually knows each other. Yet. And after months of Draco Malfoy, Mattheo Riddle, and Lorenzo Berkshire trying to catch your attention, apparently all Cedric Diggory had to do was fly past you once. Unfortunately for them, he eventually gets off the broom.
Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Mattheo Riddle, Blaise Zabini, and Pansy Parkinson expect their semester abroad in France to come with one complication: their host family is the Laurents. Everyone knows the stories. Old money, extraordinary magic, intimidating reputations, and a daughter as beautiful and brilliant as she is impossible to ignore. What they don’t expect is Laurent Manor to feel like home. Between university, parties, late nights, family dinners, spontaneous trips, too much wine, and an increasingly blurred definition of “guest,” five visiting students discover that the Laurents are nothing like the legends surrounding them—and {y/n} Laurent is even harder to forget once you actually know her. Four months in France sounded like plenty of time. Until none of them wanted to leave.
Four months at Laurent Manor were supposed to end with everyone going home. Instead, {y/n} transfers to Meridian University, and six inseparable friends trade their semester in France for a townhouse of their own. Now there are classes, parties, late nights, questionable decisions, shared bathrooms, stolen clothes, and the daily chaos of living with the people who accidentally became family. There’s also Draco Malfoy—who has already decided {y/n} belongs in his bedroom, his plans, and apparently the rest of his life. He just hasn’t admitted that last part yet.
You’ve loved Regulus Black for four years. He’s your boyfriend, your best friend, and one of six people who have been beside you for nearly your entire life. Seventh year is supposed to be one last year at Hogwarts together—classes, parties, bad decisions, and figuring out what comes next. But after summer, something is different. Regulus holds you a little closer. Draco keeps disappearing. Theo isn’t sleeping. Mattheo comes back with bruised knuckles. Pansy and Blaise know more than they’re saying. You notice. You just don’t ask. Because loving someone doesn’t mean they owe you every secret they carry. What you don’t know is that four of your closest friends have been forced into a war they never chose—and they’ve made one decision together: Whatever happens, it doesn’t get to take you too. The problem is, they know you well enough to understand exactly what you’ll do when you finally find out.
y/n is brilliant enough to become a teaching assistant while still a student herself. Theodore Nott is brilliant enough to rarely be impressed. Unfortunately for him, his gorgeous new TA might be the smartest person he’s ever met—and the one woman he isn’t allowed to date until the semester ends.
Theodore Nott knows things about {y/n} that she has never told him. Her thoughts. Her memories. Her desires. The things she only allows herself to think when she believes she’s completely alone. She trusts him. She has no idea he’s been looking. Theo knows he should stop. He has absolutely no intention of stopping.
{y/n} and Mattheo Riddle have been best friends for years. They know everything about each other, share everything, and have never once confused friendship for romance. Then one late-night conversation leads to a question neither of them has ever seriously considered: if they trust each other this much, and they’re both curious… why haven’t they slept together? They agree to do it once. Just once. No feelings, no expectations, and absolutely nothing between them has to change. Unfortunately, once turns out to be nowhere near enough—and being best friends with benefits is remarkably easy until Mattheo starts wanting something he was never supposed to want: her, entirely.
Six years after graduating from Hogwarts, {y/n} returns for a temporary position as a visiting DADA specialist. She’s twenty-four, ridiculously powerful, internationally successful, and somehow even more beautiful than the older girl a handful of first-years once remembered staring at from across the Great Hall. Except those first-years are eighteen now. And they remember her very well.
Seven years ago, Regulus Black disappeared. Eventually, everyone accepted the same impossible truth: he was dead. Everyone except {y/n} never quite learned how to stop loving him. She learned how to live without him instead. Seven years later, an ordinary evening with friends is interrupted by a knock at the door. {y/n} expects Draco. Instead, she opens it to find the love of her life standing on the other side. Older. Scarred. And very much alive. Regulus Black finally came home. He just has no idea how much life happened while he was gone.
Draco Malfoy has everything: money, power, a successful company, and enough people interested in him to make dating embarrassingly easy. Unfortunately, he only wants one woman. Y/n is a successful international model Draco discovered online months ago. One follow became a message. One message became months of DMs, shameless flirting, late-night conversations, and Draco developing a spectacularly obvious crush on a woman he has never actually met. Y/n knows exactly how badly he wants her. She also happens to enjoy him. Now, after months of living in each other’s phones, they’re finally about to end up in the same room. Draco Malfoy has been very brave behind a screen. Let’s see how that works out for him in person.
When the Ministry brings {y/n} in as a temporary consultant on an unusual Dark Arts matter, Lucius Malfoy is assigned to help her navigate the politics and diplomacy surrounding it. He expects a brief professional arrangement. Instead, the forty-year-old divorcé finds himself increasingly fascinated by the brilliant, beautiful twenty-four-year-old witch he is supposed to be mentoring. The case will end. His responsibility for her will end with it. Their interest in each other proves considerably less temporary.
Hogwarts is full. Completely, inconveniently full. When Y/n Laurent transfers from Beauxbatons for her seventh year, there’s only one bedroom left—and it happens to be in a co-ed dorm already occupied by Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Mattheo Riddle, Blaise Zabini, and Regulus Black. They’ve all seen Laurent at enough pure-blood galas to recognize her on sight. They just never expected her to walk through their door with three suitcases and announce that she lives there now. Five roommates. One transfer student. Absolutely no personal space. What could possibly happen?
Everyone in magical high society knows the name {y/n}. At her family’s annual gala in France, Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Mattheo Riddle, and Regulus Black finally meet the woman behind the reputation—and discover that breathtaking doesn’t quite cover it. The good news? {y/n} has accepted a prestigious appointment in Britain. The better news? Weeks later, moving boxes marked LAURENT appear in the lobby of their London apartment building. Cinderella didn’t disappear after the ball. She moved upstairs.
Theodore Nott has had a girlfriend for over a year. Allegedly. His friends know her name is Taylor, she attends Beauxbatons, and Theo disappears to France whenever he gets the chance to see her. Nobody has ever actually met her, and Theo’s refusal to provide more information has turned his mysterious girlfriend into a running joke. Then a new seventh-year transfer walks into the Great Hall. Not only is Theo’s girlfriend very real—she’s Taylor fucking Laurent, internationally known model, pureblood heiress, and apparently the only person alive capable of making Theodore Nott grin like an idiot. His friends have questions. Theo doesn’t understand what everyone is so confused about. He told them her name was Taylor.
Two years ago, {y/n} disappeared without a trace. Her family searched. Her friends searched. Regulus Black never stopped. Then, after two years with no body, no answers, and no reason to believe she would ever come home, Taylor reappears. Alive. Scarred. And refusing to tell anyone how she escaped. What authorities discover afterward reveals the truth: Taylor had been held captive and experimented on because of her extraordinary magic. Her captors spent two years trying to discover the limits of her power. They found out. Now Taylor is finally home, the people responsible are gone, and everyone she loves has to reconcile the woman who disappeared with the woman who came back. Especially Regulus. Because two years changed almost everything. It didn’t change who they loved.
