When Slytherin badboy Scorpius Malfoy falls for a muggle born, his life turns upside down. As if things couldn't get any more complicated, the dark lord's followers are banding together again to wreak havoc on the muggle world, and although Scorpius' father is keen on staying out of it, things take a turn for the worst when Scorpius' younger brother becomes a deatheater, dragging him into it as well. The story is primarily told from the points of view of Azura Madden, the muggle born girl who steals his heart.

Verity Davis never knew what to expect from life. She took it as it came, taking it one day at a time. Never in her life did she think she'd find anything that would put a genuine smile on her face. Her entire life seemed to have consisted of multiple forms of negativity, but when she finally takes up the courage to actually run away where will she go? They say life works in mysterious ways, but what happens when she meets someone who has much bigger problems than she's ever had?

Richard Garrison has no one. After what happened to the stock market, his family is bankrupt to the point of no return. His mother is broken due to the recent events going on in her life and he has no choice but to take care of her. He has to be the man of the family, he has to work in order to afford their small, rundown apartment in the Bronx, but jobs are difficult enough to find for anyone right now, let alone a fifteen year old. Between work and school, Richard has nothing. The rest of his family has abandoned him and his mother and he has no choice but to be strong for her. Hardly anyone in his new school wants anything to do with him when they find out why he's there...until a certain English assignment is given to him. After he dishes himself out to the very core to his fellow classmates in a morose presentation, will they accept him, or will they just hate him even more?