The Runaway and the Heir.

Elara Evermere never expected a life beyond her father's drunken rages and the empty house that never felt like home.

At fourteen, she discovers she is a witch - three years too late. Her Hogwarts letter had been hidden, her magic denied, and the truth about her mother's death buried beneath lies. Running from the only life she's ever known, Elara arrives at Hogwarts as a third-year with no friends, no knowledge of the wizarding world, and a reputation she never earned.

Sorted into Slytherin, she finds herself surrounded by sharp tongues, old names, and one platinum-blond heir who seems determined to both irritate and understand her.
Draco Malfoy knows more about her family than she does. Theodore Nott offers something quieter, safer.

And somewhere between late-night tutoring sessions, stolen glances, and the weight of secrets neither of them can speak aloud, Elara begins to realise that the most dangerous magic isn't the kind that comes from a wand.

As fragments of her pure-blood lineage surface and an old agreement between the Evermeres and the Malfoys threatens to surface, Elara must decide what she's willing to risk: the safety of a simple love, or the pull of something far more complicated.