A novella about losing your family to their religion, and finding some sort of happiness when you’re completely alone. All while trying to make it in the advertising business.

Doctors are illegal in America. Healthcare is automated. It’s universal, easy and inescapable. Allerton G. Reiss is the last doctor. He hasn’t been back home to the US in over 20 years.

In ancient Rome, a beggar boy is found to be a powerful mage and trained for war too soon to arrive.