Young Erich Fiehler knows nothing of life before Hitler’s Germany.

In the last peaceful days of 1939, he hurtles through the Austrian Alps aboard a gilded train. Its destination: a mountaintop academy where the halls burst with potent magic and Nazi zealotry.

Ensconced in this privileged retreat, Erich masters a devastating power that could change the outcome of the war. But as the atrocities that underpin his new life reveal themselves, he must choose what to give up: his magic or his humanity.

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