The Ghost and the Girl
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The world believes Severus Snape died the night Voldemort fell.
His name has become legend-half monster, half martyr, with no body left to bury. But when a young witch in her mid-twenties' stumbles into the ruins of the Shrieking Shack, she discovers a truth more dangerous than any lie: Snape lives.
Poisoned, broken, and bitter, he wants only to fade into the shadows. Yet she cannot leave him behind. Hiding him means treason. Saving him means risking everything. Loving him may cost her very soul.
In a world celebrating victory, their bond grows in secret-two haunted souls bound by whispers, candlelight, and the forbidden ache of a love that should never exist.
The world thinks he is a ghost. For her, he becomes the only thing that feels alive.
A gothic forbidden romance set in the aftermath of war, where life and death are not as simple as they seem.
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