Lucius Malfoy meets Isabelle Gardinier, a coy but stubborn nurse at Hogwarts and an intoxicating cat and mouse relationship develops between them throughout the Second War. Lucius does everything to make her his, despite Isabelle's own complex life at Hogwarts. As the dark lord rises, Isabelle becomes a pawn in the game of good and evil and innocence once lost, is lost forever.

An Earthling is dropped into Mirkwood forest. Marian is a young woman that sees good in all, but is she the woman that can catch and keep the heart of a king who can't? Thranduil and Marian develop a passionate cat and mouse relationship but will their stubbornness in character put a kingdom and their relationship in danger? Read Authors Note. Mature in later chapters.