hopeless ; sebastian sallow

Cleopatra Dixon has believed herself a hopeless case for the majority of her life; a burden to her parents with her fits of explosive magic, a victim to the bullies at her school... the list goes on. She doesn't belong, but she can't figure out why. The pressure, the sorrow, all of it building up until finally she can't take it. In the heat of the moment, her magic takes control and lashes out, killing her parents. Instantly, Professors from a strange, supposedly magical school come to rescue her from the authorities and whisk her off to Hogwarts.

Sebastian Sallow suffers at the hands of desperation: all he wants is to cure his sister, to claim enough power to protect those he loves. He'll do it through whatever means possible. And when a new student strikes him as bizarrely powerful, she becomes an asset who could save Anne. Though, in the process, he falls for her.