Bloodstream

They say blood is everything.

Your family. Your name. Your legacy.

For Evelina Céleste Rosier, it has always felt more like a curse.

After losing her mother at eight years old, Evelina is left in the care of her ruthless father; Evan Rosier, devoted Death Eater, and firm believer that love is a weakness no true pure-blood can afford. Raised among the Sacred Twenty-Eight, she's taught that loyalty is earned through fear, perfection is expected, and compassion is a flaw.

When her first year at Hogwarts ends with an owl from Draco Malfoy exposing the friendships she formed with Muggle-borns and blood traitors, her father sends her away to Beauxbatons Academy in France. Three years later, she returns for the Triwizard Tournament no longer the bright, curious girl anyone remembers. She's polished, guarded, and every inch the daughter her father always wanted.

Or so everyone believes.

Draco can't understand why the girl who once intrigued him now looks at him with nothing but quiet resentment. Evelina can't forgive the boy whose words changed the course of her life. But as old memories resurface and the war looming over the wizarding world begins to expose the cracks beneath every perfect family, they discover that some people are shaped by the families they were born into... and others spend a lifetime fighting to become someone different.

Caught between the legacy of her father's name and the memory of her mother's kindness, Evelina must decide whether blood truly defines who she is, or if she's brave enough to write a different story.

Sometimes the hardest person to escape is the one whose blood runs through your veins.