For the first fourteen years of his life, Draco had been just a spoiled rich boy. He had a father who made everything possible. He had good looks, charm, intelligence and connections. Basically he knew he had the best of everything. But when he turned fifteen, his world had completely shifted to accommodate someone so much more powerful. He had seen his family bow to a power greater than anything he had ever known and then he faced the reality of losing his father to prison. When he was sixteen he had been given this immense responsibility and impossible choice. By the time he was seventeen he had seen more blood, gore and darkness in the past three years of his life than most people had seen in a lifetime. How could anyone escape all this in one piece?