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Miss Hermione Granger has found the perfect quiet corner in the Hogwarts library. Professor Severus Snape informs her that it is his chair. This is not an auspicious beginning.
When a letter concerning the mysterious deaths of seven pureblood heirs falls into her hands, Hermione finds herself drawn into an investigation that requires something she does not possess—entry into the world of balls, dinner parties, and the old families who rule them. As an Auror cadet, she has a cover. As a Muggle-born, she has something to prove.
A Regency-style mystery in the manner of Jane Austen: slow-burn, intellectual, and suffused with the particular agony of a glance held a moment too long