A world that feels strangely familiar and yet completely alien. A world where World War II never happened, and where in 2020 high-tech corporate armies argue for world domination with aristocrats wielding magic. In that world he was thirty-five. Here he’s under fifteen—yet every problem is on a hundred percent scale: hatred from unexpected relatives, a broken coat of arms stitched by a bastard, contempt from everyone around, and a forbidden gift whose use threatens execution. And he still has to go to school.