War leaves scars - some visible, some buried deep. Returning to Hogwarts for their final year, Hermione Granger wants peace, and Draco Malfoy wants to disappear. Instead, they find each other. What begins as tension in the dungeons and late-night detentions shifts into reluctant partnership, stolen glances, and slow-burning want. But with secrets, trauma, guilt, and the weight of their reputations pressing in, love is the most dangerous thing of all. From heated arguments in the Restricted Section to quiet confessions under starlight... this is a story of rebuilding. Of choosing softness when everything inside you screams. Of knowing someone's worst - and still staying. Enemies to lovers. Lust to loyalty. Fire to forgiveness. And maybe... something like forever.

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy have an odd friendship, not many people understand it but they do. Draco Malfoy wants to stay single for as long as possible Hermione Granger is a hopeless romantic When Narcissa Malfoy has had enough of her son, she demands he settles down with a nice witch (meaning Hermione) and give her grandbabies. unfortunately, Draco is an idiot and believes his mother is setting him up with someone else and enlists Hermione in helping him con his mother. Draco should really read the fine print. (All copyright © goes to JK Rowling, I only own the plot and secondary characters)

8000+ reads on ao3 and wattpad <3 "reeled me in and crushed me with that ending. but i love it nonetheless." -carolinabeest "incredible for first work!" -zeroinstinct7 ·:*¨༺ ♱✮♱ ༻¨*:· After the death of Dumbledore and the shattering night atop the Astronomy Tower, the war in Wizarding Britain twists into something far darker. Voldemort's forces have learned a terrible truth. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are together their combined magical signatures burn like a beacon. Staying united no longer offers strength. It paints a target on their backs. So the Golden Trio must separate if they hope to survive long enough to destroy the Horcruxes. While Harry and Ron search for the scattered Horcruxes independently, Hermione finds herself alone on the outskirts of a forgotten village in rural Britain burying herself in research in the desperate hope of uncovering where the next one might be waiting. But even isolation cannot keep the war at bay. One late evening, she stumbles upon a body. One that is crumpled, pale, and bleeding into the leaves. Draco Malfoy. The boy who chose darkness. The boy she hates. As Hermione drags him into shelter, questions coil like smoke. How did he end up here? Why is he alone? And more dangerously... Why does she care if he dies or not? With Death Eaters hunting them both and the boundaries between enemy and exile blurring, Hermione must decide which will destroy her first: The war tearing their world apart... or the unexpected allegiance beginning to take shape in the quiet of the woods. ·:*¨༺ ♱✮♱ ༻¨*:·

It was supposed to be a simple in-and-out check up at St. Mungos. Unfortunately, war veteran Hermione Granger finds herself pregnant with a child whom doesn't belong to her future husband, and poisoned with Amortentia all on the same day. She now must rethink her relationship with a certain Weasley boy, while also sorting out her feelings for his best friend Harry Potter. What could possibly go wrong? (Harry/Hermione)

Hermione Granger is lonely. Post-war, slugging through her 8th year at Hogwarts, she's struggling with herself. She's questioning her path in life, and is finding it hard to move on. She's also slowly feeling more and more left behind by the people she thought were her best friends. They're essentially moving on without her, and she could never be more jealous. She feels as though they don't know her anymore, especially because they're all in loving relationships, which is something Hermione craves so dearly. She just wants to be seen. But after being paired up for a class assignment, she finds unlikely companionship in the last person she would ever expect to... Draco Malfoy. And maybe she isn't so alone after all.

The last thing Liam Mcyntire expected to find in his barn one cold February morning, was a half-starved , frozen-solid woman. She's covered in bruises and full of mistrust and suspicions. He'd been perfectly content in his bachelor life of trapping critters, selling furs and living in solitude but this mysterious woman might just change all that. Emma Hawke was running. Running from her father, from the damage the man had done. Running from a life she didn't want--a life no different from the one that had killed her mother. She's never been off the mountain. She trusts nothing and no one--not even the man who saved her life by bringing her out of the cold. If Liam's going to win her heart, he's going to have to learn patience and how to truly care for someone more than he does himself. He'll have to love her softly. Can Emma overcome her past? Can she learn to trust--possibly even love--despite the fear that she holds of men and of marriage? Or will her past track her down and destroy any hope she has for a future?

Wild and willful Victoria Colton had only one desire: to go to Africa and travel the world in search of adventure. Disrupting her plans comes an ultimatum from her guardians, weary of Victoria's hoydenish ways. By the end of the London Season, Victoria must find a husband or her inheritance will be withheld. Finding himself in the same boat as Victoria, Gabriel Sinclair must find a wife or the Hawthorne title is passed to incapable relatives. Having spent half their lives detesting each other, they are now suddenly united with one common goal in mind: to remain unwed, even to each other.

Corinne McAllister didn't realize how unhappy she was in her courtship until Ryne Wilkinson showed up at her home one morning. In an unforeseeable twist of events, they begin a journey into the Heart of Colorado, and one another. But, with Matthew Richards hot on their tail, danger pursues and threatens to divide the love they've just discovered.

North Carolina 1851 Deep in the mountains of North Carolina lives a branch of the Cherokee nation that no white man had been able to remove. They could come and go like the wind. They were rumored to be ghosts and called the 'Ghost Tribe' by those that knew of them. They were feared by all who lived in those mountainous lands except for one. Deniah Williams is the one person who does not fear them. And her reason? Gray Skies. He saved her life as children and has been her friend since that day. She knows there is something unique about her friend and his people and yet she asks no questions. She has trust in him and for her that's enough. But when Deniah's father learns of her friendship with a monstrous savage of the ghost tribe he is determined to protect her. And he knows just how to do so. He must find her a suitable husband and move his daughter to the northeast and away from the danger he is sure she faces. But things do not go as planned. When Gray Skies learns of the danger that Deniah faces he knows he must save her. Going against the wishes of his tribe, Gray Skies leaves to rescue the woman who has his heart. A fiery passion ignites between them and a love stronger than any love before ties their souls together. But hatred and revenge threaten to tear them apart. Join Gray Skies and Deniah as they fight for their love, for each other and for peace among their people.

Hermione Granger just wasn't herself anymore. But maybe, with the help of her old friend and a little bit of time-travel, she could stop that from happening again. - Some Weasley and Dumbledore Bashing - Eventual H/Hr - Highest ranking #3 in Harmione - I've completed Year One!