Ten years after the end of the war Hermione Granger is a single mother plagued by traumas of the past while trying to balance it all with her burgeoning career. It doesn't help that her best friend Harry begins to act on romantic feelings he harbors for her and desires to play a much bigger part than that of friend and uncle, especially when she loves him deeply too.

AU. Word spreads out that the brightest witch of her age, Hermione Granger, is finally back home after nearly a decade living abroad. While most of her old friends and colleagues are excited for her return, her once closest friend, Harry Potter, is dreading it, wanting nothing but to be further away from her as possible. But why, though?