An astonishingly familiar—and at the same time alien—world. A world where there was no Second World War, and where in 2020 high-tech armies of corporations fight for world domination against aristocrats who wield magic.
There, he was thirty-five. Here, there isn’t even fifteen—yet there are problems for all hundred percent: hatred of unexpected relatives, a blazon crossed out with a bastard’s ribbon, contempt from everyone around, and a forbidden gift whose use brings the death penalty. And now he also has to go to school.