After five long years of war, the Order of the Phoenix has fallen. Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic caved to the command of Voldemort. And as for the members of the Resistance... their fates are sealed in blood and servitude. For Ainsley Hale, that means being trussed up and sold to the man whose haunting presence shadowed the majority of her school years. The very wizard who turned the tide toward an inevitable victory for the Dark Lord and his followers. Her former Potions Professor... Severus Snape.