The story is Post-Marauders, but Pre-Harry. Remus Lupin is a tortured man. A lonely werewolf, he can't stay too long in one place or another. When word reaches him from Dumbledore that his old enemy, Severus Snape, has made a potion that could very well be his salvation, he has to go to Hogwarts. Ashlynn Corvin has had a troubled past. Orphaned when she was younger she attends Hogwarts, which has become her home. When Winter Break comes around and she is forced to remain at Hogwarts yet again, she runs into a man who looks even more broken than she is. What will come of this chance meeting? What will happen once two kindred spirits find each other? How will things work out when they realize love doesn't only make you happy, but can also break you? And, most importantly, what happens when they find out that their darkest secrets are most likely the ones to drive them apart?

It's your first year at hogwarts, for the past two years you've been keeping a secret all to yourself. A secret hidden by tights under your skirt and soon to be long sleeves as the stress of leaving your family draws your secret up onto your arms. Your New friends the marauders haven't seemed to notice anything, they even give you a reassuring nickname that calms your fears, but one of them seems to see right through your smiles.