Magnus Sterling is a fourteen-year-old physicist and time-traveller working for the nefarious White Wolf Society.

 

His twin brother, Thomas Sterling, is a prodigy magician and the Apprentice Protector of Brisbane and they do not get along.

 

When Brisbane is overrun by strange anomalies, the boys must put aside their rivalry and work together. What connects a goblin info-broker, a retirement home where the residents age backwards, and a talking ostrich?

 

The boys don't have long to find out, before the whole city will pay the price. A fantastical adventure through time and place.