(First book in the "Hope" series) Camilla Hope cannot wait to join her uncle Remus at his new job as a teacher while she starts officially going to school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with the third years. As the daughter of a mass murderer, raised by a werewolf, all she wants is to find her maternal roots and thus find herself. However with an escaped convict for a father, and living in constant fear that her secret will be revealed, will she survive? All that she has is a shred of hope that her mother left her with, and yet, bit by bit, she finds herself on the verge of Losing Hope.