Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.

What would you do to get another chance at life? After being evicted from society and locked up in a jail cell for years to rot, Elliot Croswell would do anything. He'd jump into shark-infested waters, cut off one of his fingers, anything. It wasn't his fault that he was in there. He didn't choose to be "infected". He didn't choose to touch a Lapis Albus stone and gain powers or to have his eyes change to some unnatural colour. So when he is finally let free to go to Noireine, a mysterious world he's only heard about, he's ecstatic. That is, until it turns out to not exactly be much of a paradise, and until he has to do something that he actually, out of anything, wasn't willing to: kill.

Kali's life is in ruins, and she has no one left to turn to. But her family isn't dead....it's much worse than that. The world isn't the way it used to be. Buildings crumble, cars sit under layers of dust and the only people that walk the streets are the soulless, shambling creatures with no knowledge of who they are any longer. Kali Williams knows she can't hide for long, and when the soul suckers come for her she runs, breathless with fear, straight into the arms of a mysterious stranger who calls himself "the guardian".

Harmony Granger is the sister of well-known Hermione, and she's just as smart. Everything is going just as normally until she meets a certain boy who will change everything she's ever known of Hogwarts; including her beloved Gryffindor...