Book Two for Blood Before Love Thirteen years ago, Holly lost everything. The girl who once dreamed of a life with Bellatrix Black is gone. Now she lives alone inside Lestrange Manor, a vast estate she hasn't left in years. Her husband, Rabastan Lestrange, sits in Azkaban alongside his brother Rodolphus and Bellatrix Black-the woman Holly once loved more than anything. The wizarding world knows her as The Lestrange Widow. They know the tragedy. They know the marriage. They know the connection to the Death Eaters. They know the woman who disappeared from society. What they don't know is that Holly has been watching. Quietly funding Hogwarts. Silently influencing the Board of Governors. Reading reports from inside the castle. Knowing far more about Britain's wizarding world than anyone realises. And she has no intention of stepping back into it. Until Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. For the first time in thirteen years, Holly leaves Lestrange Manor. The Ministry is falling apart. Hogwarts is under threat. Rumours of the Dark Lord's return are beginning to spread. And the man who once bullied Holly at Hogwarts is suddenly the most wanted wizard in Britain. As Holly is pulled back into a world she thought she'd abandoned forever, she finds herself at the centre of a crisis bigger than anything she could have imagined. But Hogwarts holds something else for her. Old friends. Old enemies. A Defence professor who remembers the girl she used to be. And eventually... the woman she spent thirteen years trying to forget. Bellatrix Lestrange is still in Azkaban. But not forever. And when the past finally catches up with Holly, she will have to decide whether some loves are truly meant to stay buried. The war ended thirteen years ago. Holly's story didn't. Book 2 of Blood Before Love. Bellatrix Black x Fem OC All work is my own please do not steal.

Savannah Weasley is the eldest of the Weasley siblings, born years before Bill and having always been the protective heart of the family. At twenty-three, after spending years travelling the wizarding world studying magical cultures, curse-breaking, potions, and even the theory behind the Dark Arts, she returns to Britain expecting a quiet life. Instead, Albus Dumbledore offers her the Defence Against the Dark Arts position at Hogwarts, replacing the fraudulent Gilderoy Lockhart before the school year begins. What begins as a single year of teaching becomes something far greater. Narcissa Malfoy x Fem OC All work is my own please do not steal.

Sienna Snape never made friends willingly, she watched from afar. If people spoke to her, she spoke back. But she never talked first. Until she heads to Hogwarts alongside her twin brother Severus and comes across one of the most beautiful girls she's ever seen. Marauders Era Fem OC x Narcissa Black All work is my own please do not steal

Holly Malfoy has never quite belonged. Born into one of Britain's oldest pure-blood families, Holly has spent her entire life surrounded by expectations she never asked for. While her younger brother Lucius embraces the traditions of their family, Holly would rather disappear into a book, spend hours studying difficult magic, or sketch beneath the trees surrounding Malfoy Manor. At Hogwarts, she finds an unexpected friendship in Andromeda Black and an unexpected nuisance in Andromeda's older sister. Bellatrix Black has always been impossible to ignore. Loud where Holly is quiet. Reckless where Holly is careful. Fierce where Holly keeps everything locked away. Bellatrix decides almost immediately that Holly is going to be her friend. Holly isn't given much choice. But years of friendship slowly become something neither girl is prepared to name. Especially when Bellatrix begins to embrace the Dark Arts, while Holly starts questioning the beliefs she was raised to accept. With Sirius Black, James Potter and their friends making Holly's time at Hogwarts considerably harder, family expectations closing in around her, and Bellatrix becoming increasingly important to her, Holly is forced to confront something far more frightening than any spell. Her own heart. Because sometimes the person you're told to fear is the person you can't stop loving. A Marauders-era story of friendship, family, loyalty, darkness, and a love neither of them was supposed to have. Bellatrix Black x Fem OC All work is my own please do not steal.