Their attempts to avoid becoming one of Reed’s failures force them to draw upon their more arcane powers: Roger can persuade people-and reality itself-to bend to his wishes, while Dodger can actually reverse time back to a certain fixed point. Despite all of Reed’s brutal and covert efforts to keep the pair apart so their abilities will flower fully, they cannot help re-encountering each other and then separating in the wake of tragedy. Roger Middleton, brilliant with languages, develops a strange telepathic connection with Dodger Cheswich, a math genius living across the country from him. In the present day, the considerably more ruthless James Reed, who is her creation and her killer, breeds twins designed to each incarnate half of the Doctrine once they have fully matured, united, and manifested as “the living force that holds the universe together,” he will seize their power to control everything. She set in motion a long-range plan to incarnate the alchemical Doctrine of Ethos, encoding her scheme in a series of children’s books destined to become classics. In the late 19th century, ambitious young alchemist Asphodel Baker tried to rewrite reality to create a better world. The product of a long-running alchemical experiment, twins Roger and Dodger struggle to understand their unique circumstances and gain control over them.
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