"Few people can say they have managed to escape death once, but not many can say they have escaped death twice. After a potions mishap and muggle car accident, I somehow managed to survive. The car accident took two loved ones from me. I continuously reminded myself not to take my luck in surviving for granted. The Wizarding World has drastically changed over the past year. What we believed to be ancient history was back." Bradley Willis is about to begin her sixth year at Salem Academy of Sorcery. Things are different this year and not just because of the soon to be war. On top of falling in love with her ex-boyfriends best friend, Bradley begins developing a strange ability that puts her at risk.

When college student Kasey Whitton takes a job babysitting for single dad Jian Li, she doesn't expect to fall in love with the newborn baby -- or with Jian. ***** Love is the last thing on Kasey Whitton's mind when she agrees to take an overnight babysitting job to help support her struggling family. But as her business relationship with single dad Jian Li slowly develops into something more, Kasey is surprised to find herself falling in love with him despite his hot-and-cold attitude towards her -- and the fact that she has a long-term high school boyfriend. Will her growing feelings for Jian and his newborn son be enough to convince her to risk everything stable in her life? Or will Jian's fear of commitment -- and his belief all the women in his life are cursed -- be enough to keep them apart? [[Best Diverse Story, The Fiction Awards]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]