Flint, Eric

In seventeenth-century Europe, a group of Americans from the twentieth century form a political alliance with Sweden and try to form ties with Italy where a Venetian artist's attempts to save Galileo from his heresy trial could jeopardize everything.

Freedom and justice--American style--are introduced to the Thirty Years War when a cosmic accident lands a portion of rural medieval Europe in Grantsville, West Virginia in the middle of mine worker Mike Stearn's sister's wedding.

Mike Stearns, a former prime minister of the United States of Europe, now serving as a general for Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, is going to need all his military skills when he is sent to Saxony to restore order after rioting breaks out over the arrest of Gretchen, a member of a revolutionary group.

A group of West Virginians accidentally plunged into the seventeenth-century in the midst of the Thirty Years' War uncover Spanish inquisitor Cardinal Gaspar Borja y Velasco's plot to weaken support for Pope Urban.