A mysterious cosmic force--the "Ring of Fire"--hashurled the town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17thcentury Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seeminglymagical technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, thetime-lost West Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, toform the Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course ofhistory--in ways both small and large. The saga begun in 1632 continueswith all-new stories by New York Times best-selling authors Eric Flint andAndrew Dennis, plus Dave Freer, K. D. Wentworth, and other top writers, as thetime-lost Americans attempt an underwater salvage operation to raise the sunkenSwedish flagship, the uprising known as the Ram Rebellion continues, CardinalRichelieu plots to destroy Grantville and its allies, an American prisoner ofwar carries on a dangerous romance with the Danish King's daughter, andmore in a volume that no fan of the Ring of Fire series will want to bewithout.