When you're shaken to your core and everything crashes down around you, how do you rebuild your life from the shreds of who you once were? When you can't even begin to describe how you've suffered, not even to those you've loved for years, who do you turn to? Loren Paxton loses control over her whole world in the same instant Sirius Black begins to, at last, gain some over his...

Lynnette Rivelli; pureblood, Gryffindor, resident bad girl has always taken the easy way out in life. But in her final year she begins to learn that the easy way out isn't always the best way. That hiding from the past won't make it go away. But facing up to her family, her future and even herself doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as facing up to one Sirius Black.