Raising dragons - a demanding, dangerous profession that brought her into contact with Charlie Weasley from the beginning of their collaboration around the creatures he keeps safe and moving. What began as professional closeness has become, over time, a relationship that they have learned to hide with the same care that they take to protect their rarest animals.

This care was not enough indefinitely. The relationship is now about to be discovered, and Charlie has chosen - without discussing it in advance - to leave everything behind rather than see it exposed or broken. Seven eggs, all they could save in secret, are their only baggage to a life neither of them has yet imagined in detail.