Retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is pulled into the past by a series of mysterious killings near his western Wisconsin home--a past that Jack does not remember, during which, as a boy, he traveled to a parallel universe to protect his mother and save another world from destruction.
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Eight women have met every Thursday night for years to share food, wine, and friendship. One Thursday night they decide to disappear from their own lives and begin a trek across the backroads of Wisconsin. As they move along, they find the strength to change their lives, their families, and their communities.
In World War II England, ten-year-old Lottie is transported via a portal to present day Wisconsin, where she must find her way back to her family and her best friend, Kitty.
Fourteen-year-old Shep Greenfield rides his horse between the makeshift colonies along the Wisconsin River delivering homemade medicine to people infected with nightpox, and while trading meds for much needed grains, he finds evidence that suggests his missing parents may be alive in a distant settlement called Dusty Hollow, a disease-ridden settlement that is about to be burned down, and Shep must act quickly to find his parents.
Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of the state which calls itself "America's Dairyland.".
