Paroled to preserve their magical bloodlines, Thorfinn Rowle and Antonin Dolohov are just trying to get on with their lives. A drunken one night stand between Hermione and Thorfinn, coupled with Dolohov's obsession with the curly haired witch, lead them toward a series of unexpected, but not entirely unfortunate events.

Thorfinn Rowle had a mission: Ruin Hermione Granger's life like she'd almost ruined his. To trap a lion cub is easy, but when this little lioness grows up Thorfinn will have to walk a knife-edge between hate and love to avoid her sharp claws. Revenge is a dish best served cold and unspoken promises are deadly.

Convicted of her crimes in the lead up to and during the war, Hermione Granger is carted off to serve life in Azkaban. Rubbing shoulders with her fellow convicts, Thorfinn Rowle, Antonin Dolohov and Rabastan Lestrange, Hermione does everything she can to hang onto her sanity, her dignity and her magic. Even caged birds sing. No matter how bad things look from behind bars.

The Ministry enacts a Marriage Law, magically pairing couples who'd never in a million years agree to even speak, let alone wed. Paired off with Malfoy, Hermione has to suffer the added indignity of the Ministry banning all contraception and forcing fertility treatment and aphrodisiacs on them all. Draco's secret makes it worse.

Captured by the Dark Lord's forces, Hermione assumes her their death is imminent. She finds herself wishing that were so when she is instead given over as rewards to one of Voldemort's loyalest Death Eaters; Thorfinn Rowle. Bloodied and bruised she's the bait that will lure Harry to Voldemort and finally settle the battle.

The mission should have been simple. Seduce a Death Eater for capture and interrogation by the Order, who would hold him hostage until such time that his usefulness ran out. Hermione had agreed to help with the seduction part of that mission. She didn't agree to babysitting an angry Death Eater in a remote safe house. And she sure as hell didn't agree to Thorfinn Rowle.

War breeds chaos, but no one ever imagined the Ministry would make a move like this. A law that every witch must marry two wizards seems a step too far in Hermione's opinion. Especially when it's her subconscious infatuations that see her paired with two wizards who would sooner kill each other than play nice.

When Hermione Granger is caught by Snape she must fake her death and assume a new identity and appearance as the illegitimate daughter of Severus Snape. Going by the name Mina Graziana-Snape, Hermione must navigate this new world where she's rubbing shoulders with Death Eaters, forced to participate in revels, marked as a Death Eater herself and balancing light and dark.

*COMPLETE* Dragged to Malfoy Manor, Hermione is tortured for information on Harry's whereabouts. When the Cruciatus curse proves useless, Bellatrix settles on a heinous course of action to loosen her tongue. Forced to come together under threat of death, Draco and Hermione are about to learn there is more to their relationship than hatred.