Ser1alLoVe
1978.
The wizarding world is beginning to fracture.
As whispers of Lord Voldemort grow louder and fear spreads through Britain, Hogwarts remains one of the last places where life still resembles normality. Lessons continue, Quidditch matches are played, and friendships are forged-but beyond the castle walls, families are choosing sides in a war that will change the course of history.
Seventeen-year-old Adeline Mercer has spent her entire life sheltered from the pure-blood family her mother left behind. Raised in a modest London townhouse by her widowed mother, Celia, Adeline has never understood why her existence is enough for some to despise her. Half-blood, the daughter of a Muggle-born father and a pure-blood mother branded a blood traitor, she has learned that kindness is far stronger than prejudice.
Her final year at Hogwarts should have been about NEWTs, late-night laughter with her best friend Rosie Clarke, and repairing the fragile relationship she'd only recently begun to build with her cousin, Daphne Fairchild.
Instead, it becomes the year everything begins to fall apart.
Regulus Black has spent his life carrying the weight of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black upon his shoulders. With his brother gone and the expectations of his family resting solely on him, he has never questioned the path laid before him. Loyalty, duty, and blood have always come before everything else.
Until they don't.
As the First Wizarding War tightens its grip, old friendships are tested, families are torn apart, and secrets become more dangerous than spells. While some willingly embrace the darkness, others begin to question the world they were raised to believe in.
Drawn together by chance and divided by everything they've ever known, Adeline and Regulus discover that love can bloom in the unlikeliest of places-but in a world built on blood and legacy, choosing each other may cost them everything.