Due to a clever lie, the last unincarcerated scion of the House of Black is raised by the McKinnon family house elf in a secret library that moves through forgotten spaces in muggle London. James Black, suddenly thrown into the wizarding world alone at 11, knows little about his father's family or the kind of magic that runs in it. To his surprise, he finds he was born for it.

If you drew a time-line of Lily Potter's life it would look like a maze. But for the head of Temporal Investigations at the D.O.M. that's perfectly normal- What isn't is the strange man who appears impossibly in all of history. Add a temporally misplaced Potions Master, a time-bent elephant and her family and you get either a mess or a grand adventure. Lilly isn't yet sure which.