After being absent for several years, Hermione reappears on Bellatrix's doorstep. It's been a strange road for both of them since the end of the war, a road neither of them ever thought they would walk. It wasn't always easy, but they never could help how they gravitated toward each other even after everything.

Sometimes things don't go the way they're supposed to, and sometimes people don't listen to reason. Hermione knows better than to trust in the Ministry, even if she works for them, so she takes it upon herself to make things right. By sponsoring Draco Malfoy, which sets in motion a chain of events that leads to saving one of the most notorious witches alive. Bellatrix Lestrange.

They won the war, but things didn't go exactly as expected. It was all too much for Hermione so she left and started a new life where no one would find her. No one but the creation of her own mind.

Hermione never thought that she would find herself befriending her dead torturer. She certainly would've laughed at anyone if they told her she would go back in time to change it all. She would've, until she did it. Now, Hermione has a chance to rewrite history.

Fate is inescapable. Hermione knows this. Her friends were fated to leave forever and she was fated to bear the pain of rebuilding the world. She didn't want it. She refuses to help a world that has done nothing but destroy. The beasts at her heels are suffocating her and only one person can help. In return, she will help bring about a new world.

She should know better than to trust books that just fall into her lap, especially when it clearly holds ancient and dark secrets. The Order would never let her learn this information. That just means she won't tell them about it. She has a friend to guide her through the dark; the Order will no longer blind her with their self-righteousness. They never liked her anyway.