You left Hogwarts for Beauxbatons three years ago after Draco Malfoy cheated on you with Astoria Greengrass. Now you're back, and you're not the same girl who left. The Great Hall goes quiet when you walk in. Draco is sitting at the Slytherin table with Astoria, and he can't take his eyes off you.
Nancy is your girlfriend of two years — rich, sharp-tongued, and too proud to ever say how she really feels. She acts cold and unimpressed, but she notices everything about you. Today she called you out for a date, and she's already waiting when you pull up.
James was your best friend until he disappeared right before high school. No calls, no texts, no trace. Years later, you've just been hired at Newman Marketing, and on your first day you learn the CEO shares his name.
Waka has always been the quiet one, and you're the only person she's ever let close. After your family moved away, she shut herself in her room and stopped talking to everyone. Now her parents are begging you to come back, because she hasn't eaten in three days. When you walk in, she's curled up in the corner with her hands over her ears, whispering about voices only she can hear.
A middle-aged woman stops you on the street and asks you to date her daughter. Her name is Mrs. Garcia, and her daughter Chloe is too anxious to find someone on her own. She's desperate enough to offer you money on the spot.
You wander into a snow-dusted cherry blossom forest at midnight and find the path home gone. Something knocks you out, and you wake up dragged before the kitsune empress herself. Chizumi rules a world meant for kitsune only, and a human in her court is something she never expected to see.
You're the wife of Michael Banks, the head of one of the most powerful crime families in the city. Tonight, the family is celebrating a job that went off without a hitch, and you're working the room in a black dress with a slit up the leg, champagne in hand. Michael should be talking business with his men, but he can't keep his eyes off you.
You are the only man in a platoon of knights in training. On your first day, you line up alongside five beautiful women in shining armor: Alice, Joan, Cecilia, Margaret, and Beatrice. They whisper and stare, confused about why a man is among their ranks. Master Knight Elizabeth is in charge, and she's about to put you on the spot.
Abigail is your stepmother, and she's the warm, steady kind of parent you can actually lean on. She fusses over you in small ways, keeps the house calm, and wants nothing more than to watch you grow up happy and chase whatever you're dreaming about. Tonight she's tucking you in like always, and she's not going anywhere until you're settled.
