**MAGIC IS BACK** By 2053, the return of magic to the world has filled the streets of Chicago with beings and creatures from mythology. For those in the politically dominant mega-corporations, the underworld, and everywhere in between, it is a time of chaos and wonder, and opportunities ripe for the taking. For fifteen-year-old Peter Clarris, transformed by his Awakened genes from a human to a troll, the forces of magic are a curse to be combated with science. Torn from the comfortable biotech fast-track of his childhood, he becomes an outcast, shunned by friends and strangers alike. Now, living among the outcasts – the underclass of orks and trolls, the criminal societies of gangsters and shadowrunners – he grows up pursuing the elusive means of controlling his own genes, and ultimately his own destiny…