A world that feels strangely familiar and yet completely alien. A world where there was no Second World War—and in 2020, high-tech armies of corporations fight for world domination against aristocrats who wield magic.
There, he was thirty-five. Here he isn’t even fifteen. Instead, there are problems—every one of them: hatred of unexpected relatives, a crest crossed out with bastard’s trimming, contempt from everyone around, and a forbidden gift whose use threatens with a death sentence.