Mike Stearns, leader of a new nation formed by West Virginians accidentally plunged into seventeenth-century Germany in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, faces threats from Cardinal Richelieu of France while his wife and sister, trapped during diplomatic missions, try to escape war-torn Amsterdam and the Tower of London.

"Doctor Benjamin Schroder was a history teacher until a psychotic episode turned his world upside down. Benjamin now had memories, not just of his own life, but of an entire ghastly world where millions of civilians had been systematically slaughtered in 'extermination camps,' there is still a Soviet Union, the Korean Peninsula is divided, thousands of nuclear warheads spread their threat across Earth and the Middle East was a festering sore of bloodshed,...