A fresh addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, people of the present day city of Grantville, West Virginia, the up-timers and their allies take on continental America as well as the Japan! A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fireplace, strands the Western world Virginia city of Grantville in the center of Europe through the Thirty Years War. The repercussions of that event transform Europe and, in a few years, begin about 1636: Seas of Fortune spreading across the world. By 1636, the Ring of Fire’s effect is experienced across two great oceans, the Atlantic and Pacific. Stretching Out: The United States of Europe seeks out resources — oil, plastic and even lightweight aluminum ore — to help it income war against the foes of independence. Daring pioneers cross the Atlantic and discovered a fresh colony on the Crazy Coast of SOUTH USA. The colonists hope that with the up-timers’ support and understanding they are able to prosper in the tropics without holiday resort to Indian and African slavery. A slave ship visits the colony, seeking water…. as well as the colonists must make a fateful choice. Increasing Sun: In 1633, the influx of transformation emanating from the Ring of Fire gets to Japan. The Shogun is usually intrigued by samples of up-time technology, but it’s a look at what fate had waiting for you for Japan in the older time line that has the greatest influence — setting occasions in motion whose tremors are sensed thousands of miles away and for a long time to arrive, as Japan pulls back from a policy of isolation and stakes out its own claim in the fearless new world developed by the Band.