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For four long years, while his sister Juniper married into the Weasleys and his brother Licorus became the golden boy of Slytherin, Perseus lived as a ghost in his own home. Branded a Squib by his cold-blooded Black relatives and hidden away on the Dorset Coast, he was the middle child who simply didn't fit.
Resigned to an arranged marriage with Valentina Malfoy and a life of quiet invisibility, Perseus wanted nothing to do with magic, the very thing that killed his mother and tore his family apart.
But his twin, Alexandra, refused to let him fade away.
Lexia is a storm in silk. Fierce, unapologetic, and fiercely protective, she sacrificed four years of her own education at Hogwarts just to ensure her brother was never left alone in his silence. She isn't the graceful, patient lady the Blacks demand; she is a Riss, and she plays by her own rules.
Thrust into Hogwarts as fifth-year late-starters, the twins survive a dragon attack and a deadly conspiracy before they even reach the Great Hall. Now, the weight of their father's legendary reputation, and a Headmaster uncle who views them as a stain on the family tapestry.
Alexandra enters the castle with her heart set on Ominis Gaunt, the blind heir she has loved since childhood. But the complex in Sebastian Sallow calls to her soul. She is torn between her brother's two best friends.
For Perseus, the world changes the moment he sees Anne Sallow. It is love at first sight, a quiet, fierce devotion that shatters his resignation to an arranged marriage. He wanted a princess to spoil; he found a cursed girl to save.
Will they uphold their Black family's honor, or burn their legacy for the ones they love?