Mournful Hearts (гет)

England, Regency. Miss Harriette Potter has lost her parents, her home, and nearly everything she owns to the grasping hands of her aunt and uncle — until a stranger arrives in a storm with legal documents and an ebony cane and the cold, unsparing authority of a man who has been waiting to do this for a very long time. Sir Severus Snape is her guardian by her mother's design, a baronet and Royal Chemist who keeps his feelings with the same precision he keeps his experiments — tightly stoppered and clearly labelled. He has not, however, accounted for a ward who pays exactly the right kind of attention. A Gothic Regency slow burn about grief, restoration, and the quality of attention that cannot be arranged.