New York Occasions and Wall Road Journal best-selling alternative history series. Book #14 in the Band of Fire series created by Eric Flint. Eddie Cantrell, now married towards the king of Denmark’s daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson towards the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable item on that continent-not the silver and gold that your Spanish treasure, however the essential oil which up-time devices and industry want. The admiral has also provided Eddie’s small task pressure with the brand new steam-powered about 1636: Commander Cantrell in the Western Indies frigates that have just come out of the navy’s shipyards. Even with the frigates, a giant obstacle stands in his way: the Gulf-girdling Spanish presence in the New World. So a diversion is needed, carried out by an up-time car auto mechanic and a down-time mercenary colonel who also happens to be the last earl of Ireland. Their objective: grab the oil areas on Trinidad, and so distract the attention of Spain’s New World governors. As the Spanish galleons and troops head for Trinidad, Commander Cantrell’s smallest and fastest steam sloop can make a set you back the Louisiana coastline. There, her staff will blowing wind their way up the bayous to the real New World prize: the Jennings Oil Field. But Cantrell’s plans could possibly be wrecked in a variety of ways. He encounters often-hostile natives, rambunctious Dutch ship captains, allied colonies within the brink of starvation, and vicious social infighting that can barely be contained by his capable and passionate brand-new wife. When the galleons finally come out in pressure to engage his small flotilla, Eddie will quickly realize the fact that Spanish aren’t the only enemies who’ll be coming against him in a fateful Caribbean show-down.