60 parts Complete MatureThey thought the war would end with peace.
But no one warned them about the after.
Rose Ashwood was supposed to burn out.
Not build a life. Not fall in love again.
Not still wake up in the middle of the night, wand gripped tight, heart racing from ghosts that don't have the decency to stay dead.
Once a battlefield legend with a magnetic laugh and a death wish, she now lives quietly-if not peacefully-with a house full of noise, scars she doesn't talk about, and friends who won't let her drown.
But the past doesn't knock. It crashes back in, dressed in red hair and old songs, dragging with it forgotten sparks, buried grief, and the kind of secrets that don't stay buried for long.
There's a party on the rooftop.
There's a boy with a grin that makes her ache.
And there's a chance-for love, for healing, for something new.
If only she's brave enough to take it.
Because surviving the war was one thing.
Learning to live again? That's another kind of magic entirely.