Prologue

Animo Grindelwald has been raised for one purpose: to defeat her brother. After being sent hurtling through time, Animo has grown up hidden within the walls of Hogwarts. Her only companion is Albus Dumbledore, with whom she shares a painful past. Yet when Albus approaches her with a mission to return to the past, Animo knows she must go. To 1944. Before Gellert has been defeated. And when Tom Riddle is still a student at Hogwarts. Confronted with the challenge to change the path of both wizards, Animo struggles to stay adrift. Who is she, really? And how will she handle her growing attachment to one of the world's darkest characters? After all, Tom Riddle and Voldemort are not yet the same.