When Honoria Gregori found out her fiance, Severus Snape, was a Death Eater, she turned away from him, and sought comfort in the arms of an old friend, whom she then married, to give her son a father. Now Alistor Veritas is dead, and Honoria has been kidnapped by the Death Eaters - Voldemort knows Snape is the traitor, and will stop at nothing to hurt the once loyal man. But there is more to this tale than a simple rescue... Severus must learn how to deal with his seventeen year old son, and the old wounds that have kept them apart for most of Marcus’s life.