A fresh addition to the four-time NY Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself among the struggling forces of 17th hundred years Western Europe, the ‘out-of-time’ modern city of Grantville, West Virginia must fight for its existence against Dark Age domination. Alternate background expert Eric Flint returns in top form with an epic addition to the multiple NY Times top selling Band of Open fire series. A cosmic accident sets the present day town of Grantville, Western world Virginia, about 1636: The Saxon Uprising down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe and a new nation is forged. Right now when USA of European countries ally Ruler Gustavas of Sweden invades Poland, the U.S. of E. is usually dragged right into a full-scale Western european war against ruthless opponents. On the other hand Mike Stearns, wily and courageous leader from the up-time Western world Virginians, has been turned out of office within an election. But, like Churchill (before and after him) Stearns is not done yet. He’s motivated to stoke the fires of democratic rebellion in Saxony near the main front, and therefore keep the young nation he founded, and once led, out of the hands of medieval tyrants-tyrants who would like nothing better than to clean those problematic upstarts from the near future off the timeline and get back to the poor old days of oppression and serfdom.