In the summer of 1995, newly graduated Slytherin Branda Burke struggles with her life in Knockturn Alley with her harsh cousin and younger siblings. After Lucius Malfoy comes calling, Brands unkowingly becomes a target for recruitment — as a Death Eater.

A young woman is taken by Lucius Malfoy as a war prize. Your trigger warning is the summary. It’s not romantic.

Everyone in the family remembered the day Girl didn’t get her letter. Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as such a shock—after all, Girl had never shown any signs of magic like the rest of the children . . . But how could it have been suspected when no one in their families had ever been a Squib?