The second book in the saga about warlord Arthur Volkov. An amazingly familiar—and at the same time alien—world. A world where World War II never happened, and in 2020 high-tech armies of corporations fight for world domination with aristocrats who wield magic. There, he was thirty-five. Here, there is not even fifteen—yet there are a hundred percent problems: hatred from unexpected relatives, a crest erased by a bastard’s band, contempt from those around, and a forbidden gift whose use threatens with execution.