It isn't everyday you get to find out that everything knew about yourself and the people around you is a lie. Suddenly life is taking a 180-degree turn and you don't know whether to run toward it or a way from it. Amelia is thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with. Suddenly she is surrounded by 6 new presences who should be familiar to her, yet feel like complete strangers. they stand like pillars of a house she hasn't earned the key to yet- guarded, silent and heavy with secrets she cant begin to guess. She watches them from behind the high walls she's built around herself. Having been let down so many times before, her instinct isn't to reach out but to brace for the moment they inevitably turn their backs. Yet beneath the cold stares and the suffocating silence of this new life, there is a pulse she didn't expect. Its in the way the subconsciously move to shield her in a crowded room or the heavy unspoken weight of their shared grief that mirrors her own. Eventually the strangers will start to feel like anchors. The secrets that once felt like weapons will become the foundation of a pact they make to protect one another. She wont just be a guest in their world; she will be the piece that finally makes them whole.

As the Triwizard Tournament throws Hogwarts into chaos, friendships shift, jealousy burns hotter, and everyone begins growing into people they barely recognize. Between late-night parties, dangerous secrets, stolen glances, and the pressure building inside the castle walls, Pricilla finds herself caught between two boys who know her better than anyone - and who suddenly seem determined to make her notice them too. Because somewhere between childhood and seventeen, everything changed. And nobody can quite remember when Pricilla Granger got hot.

Dove Van Doren is a bird in the attic- quiet, obsessive, and painfully out of place. A muggle-born in a world that was never meant for her, she binds herself to routines and rigid control, building order out of chaos so she does not fall apart with it. Fred Weasley is the opposite of everything she understands- loud where she is silent, reckless where she is precise, chaos where she is control. They were never meant to fit. And yet, somehow, they do. Not in touches. Not in kisses. But in glances that linger too long, in words that mean too much, in a quiet, consuming pull that feels dangerously close to obsession. But Dove was never meant for something gentle. There are no soft endings written into her path. Taken before the world can change, she becomes something else entirely-a dove meant to symbolize freedom, now caged within walls where darkness breathes and names lose meaning. And Fred is left with memory. With longing. With the kind of love that refuses to disappear. Some girls are meant to fly. Some are meant to be caged. And some- are never meant to be found again.

{Marauders Era} {Remus Lupin x OC} If the place that keeps his secrets is the Shrieking Shack, then she is the voice that haunts its clawed walls. ************************* (This story may include mature content and emotional triggers that could cause distress towards the reader)

aren't we indeed keepers of our dead? 51ST HUNGER GAMES pre-trilogy / oc cracker-jack © 2021

Ella is on the run, terrified that the men who stole her right off the street will find her again. A sweet, unloved young woman who has lived the past few years in foster care before winding up on the streets, she's somehow managed to maintain her innocence and gentle nature. Racing to stay one step ahead of the vile men chasing her, she runs head first into the arms of five brothers who will always fight for those who can't fight for themselves. These five sexy, former Delta Force soldiers are battle-hardened, dangerous and fiercely loyal to each other. They will do anything to protect their family, and that soon includes Ella when they find her in the forest - terrified, hurt and alone. Wolf, Hunter, Storm, Ryder and Blaize are brothers in arms, but soon the most important person in their lives is Ella, and when she's threatened once again these five deadly soldiers will stop at nothing until she is safe and back in their arms where she belongs.