Sequel to Devil's Backbone. Eleven years after the Second War, Lucy Potter-Black returns to England after spending eight years studying under Newt Scamander. Lucy quickly learns that the ache of loss still haunts those surrounding her, and that life, love and family are not as black and white as her name would suggest. Concurrent with second generation.

Lyra Black was raised by her godmother, Andromeda Tonks, after the First Wizarding War killed her mother, Marlene McKinnon, and incarcerated her father, Sirius Black. When Sirius escapes Azkaban, Lyra is forced to face the reality that has been hidden from her. Her once serene, happy family life gets thrown on its head, and she finds an unlikely ally in the boy-who-lived.

Julianne Potter just barely lived through the First Wizarding War. The death of her twin brother and his wife would have been hard enough if the man she loved wasn't responsible for it, if he hadn't killed one of their best friends, if she hadn't been left pregnant and alone. Starting in PoA with flashbacks to the Marauder Era. Sirius x OC with hints of Remus x OC