An exciting addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of
Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. Time travelers from our
modern age are thrown into the deadly straits of the Thirty Years War in Europe
of the 1600s.

In the year 1635, the Rhineland is in turmoil. The impact
of the Ring of Fire, the cosmic accident which transported the small modern West
Virginia town of Grantville to Europe in the early seventeenth century, has only
aggravated a situation that was already chaotic. Perhaps nowhere in central
Europe did the Thirty Years War produce so much upheaval as it did in the
borderlands between France and Germany.

Archbishop Ferdinand of Cologne
shares the religious fanaticism of his older brother, Duke Maximilian of
Bavaria. He is determined to restore the power of the Catholic Church over the
middle Rhine, the so-called “Bishop’s Alley,” and has
unleashed a plot for that purpose. But that same middle Rhine is territory which
Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel is determined to seize for himself, under
the guise of expanding the influence of the United States of
Europe.

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