Book 20 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain including notorious enemy to the crown Oliver Cromwell Now the hunt for Cromwell is on with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain Oliver Cromwell & a few companions including the sharpshooter Julie Sims her Scot husband Alex Mackay & Cromwell’s Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl Mc Carthy Soon the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head The new chief minister Richard Boyle Earl of Cork brings over from Ireland a notorious crew of cutthroats led by the man called Finnegan to track down & capture the escapees from the Tower The hunt passes through England & into Scotland where the conflict between Cromwell & his companions & their would-be captors becomes embroiled in Scotland’s politics which are every bit as savage & ruthless as Finnegan & his men To make things still more conflicted & confused the time Darryl Mc Carthy spends fighting alongside Cromwell forces him against his will to admire & respect—and even like—the man despite Cromwell’s demonic reputation among all self-respecting Irish nationalist families like Darryl’s own It’s a Gordian knot anywhere you look—until Julie Sims brings out her rifle Now it’s the turn of Scot partisans & English lords & Irish toughs to learn the lesson already learned on the continent A safe distance isn’t what you think it is Not after the American angel of death spreads her wings ...

Book 20 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain including notorious enemy to the crown Oliver Cromwell Now the hunt for Cromwell is on with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain Oliver Cromwell & a few companions including the sharpshooter Julie Sims her Scot husband Alex Mackay & Cromwell’s Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl Mc Carthy Soon the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head The new chief minister Richard Boyle Earl of Cork brings over from Ireland a notorious crew of cutthroats led by a man called Finnegan to track down & capture the escapees from the Tower The hunt passes through England & into Scotland where the conflict between Cromwell & his companions & their would-be captors becomes embroiled in Scotland’s politics which are every bit as savage & ruthless as Finnegan & his men To make things still more conflicted & confused the time Darryl Mc Carthy spends fighting alongside Cromwell forces him against his will to admire & respect—and even like—the man despite Cromwell’s demonic reputation among all self-respecting Irish nationalist families like Darryl’s own It’s a Gordian knot anywhere you look—until Julie Sims brings out her rifle Now it’s the turn of Scot partisans & English lords & Irish toughs to learn the lesson already learned on the continent A safe distance isn’t what you think it is Not after the American angel of death spreads her wings ...

Rome 1635 & Grantville's diplomatic team headed by Sharon Nichols are making scant headway now it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more Sharon doesn't mind she has a wedding to plan Frank Stone has moved ...

It is Rome 1635 & Grantville&s diplomatic team headed by Sharon Nichols is making scant headway now that it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them any more Sharon doesn&t mind she has a wedding to plan Frank Stone has moved to Rome & is attempting to bring about the revolution one pizza at a time Cardinal Bo Ija is gathering votes to bring the Church&s reformers to a halt in their tracks on the orders of the King of Spain Meanwhile trouble is brewing in the streets shadowy agitators are stirring up trouble & Spain&s armies are massed across the border in the Kingdom of Naples Cardinal Barberini wants the pamphleteers to stop slandering him & it looks like it&s going to be a long hot summer Except that Cardinal Borja has more ambitions than his masters in Madrid know about & has the assistance of Spain&s most notorious secret agent to bring about his sinister designs ...

It springtime in the Eternal City 1635 But it no Roman holiday for uptimer Frank Stone & his pregnant downtime wife Giovanna They in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia with the real Pope
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- on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols & her swashbuckling downtime husband Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz Up to their necks in papal assassins power politics murder & mayhem the uptimers & their spouses need help & they need it quickly!

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The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe but a new force is gathering power & influence the Confederated Principalities of Europe an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden & the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident While the old entrenched rulers & manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation everyday life goes on in Grantville the town lost in time with librarians firefighters & garbage collectors trying to make do under unusual circumstances & what better place for an undercover spy from France than working with the garbage collectors examining 20th century machines that others throw out & copying the technology There are more sinister agents at work however One of them Ducos almost succeeded in assassinating the Pope but his plan was ruined by quick action by a few Americans Now the would-be assassin not only has a score to settle but has also decided on two excellent targets Grantville's leader Mike Stearns & his wife Rebecca! ...

The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe but a new force is gathering power & influence the United States of Europe a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden & the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident While the old entrenched rulers & manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation everyday life goes on in Grantville even under the shadow of war as this lost outpost of American freedom & justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism ...

An exciting addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint Time travelers from our modern age are thrown into the deadly straits of the Thirty Years War in Europe of the 1600s In the year 1635 the Rhineland is in turmoil The impact of the Ring of Fire the cosmic accident which transported the small modern West Virginia town of Grantville to Europe in the early seventeenth century has only aggravated a situation that was already chaotic Perhaps nowhere in central Europe did the Thirty Years War produce so much upheaval as it did in the borderlands between France & Germany Archbishop Ferdinand of Cologne shares the religious fanaticism of his older brother Duke Maximilian of Bavaria He is determined to restore the power of the Catholic Church over the middle Rhine the so-called “ Bishop’s Alley” & has unleashed a plot for that purpose But that same middle Rhine is territory which Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel is determined to seize for himself under the guise of expanding the influence of the United States of Europe Add to the witch&s brew the deaths in battle of Duke Wolfgang of Julich-Berg & his son which leaves his young widow Katharina Charlotte as the heir to those much-prized territories She is now on the run in disguise—and pregnant Add the unexpected arrival of Austria’s most capable general Melchior von Hatzfeldt along with the most ruthless spy & torturer in the Rhineland Felix Gruyard The wars for the Rhine have erupted & only the devil knows how they will end Meet The Author Anette Pedersen was born & raised in Denmark where she currently resides She grew up reading science fiction in English & Danish due to her father’s love for the genre She has written multiple stories for anthologies edited by Eric Flint set in his Ring of Fire alternate history universe Anette is a retired geologist & micropaleontologist She is a church accountant & deacon as well as a keen gardener & cook She paints botanical illustrations to professional standards but she claims with far from professional speed ...

A sparkling addition to the multiple” New York Times”best-selling Ring of Fire alternate historyseries created by Eric Flint An alchemist of the 17th centuryconfrontsmodern science with often amusing results Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz the world’s greatest alchemist & a great-grandson of Paracelsus & a Bombast on his mother’s side was a man history had forgotten But when the town of Grantville was transported by a cosmic accident from modern West Virginia to central Germany in the early seventeenth century he got a second chance at fame & fortune The world’s greatest alchemist does not make household goods But with suitable enticements Gribbleflotz is persuaded to make baking soda & then baking powder so that the time-displaced Americans can continue to enjoy such culinary classics as biscuits andgravy Applying his superb grasp of the principles of alchemy to the muddled & confused notions the Americans have concerning what they call chemistry Gribbleflotz leaves obscurity behind In his relentless search for a way to invigorate the “quinta essential” of the human humors Gribbleflotz plays a central role in jump-starting the seventeenth century s new chemical & marital aids industries & pioneering such critical fields of human knowledge as pyramidology & aura imaging ...

New York Times & Wall Street Journal best-selling alternate history series Book 18 in the Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint Eddie Cantrell now married to the king of Denmark’s daughter is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent—not the gold & silver which the Spanish treasure but the oil which up-time machines & industry need The admiral has also provided Eddie’s small task force with the new steam-powered 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 mechanic & a down-time mercenary colonel who also happens to be the last earl of Ireland Their mission grab the oil fields on Trinidad & so distract the attention of Spain’s New World governors While the Spanish galleons & troops head for Trinidad Commander Cantrell’s smallest & fastest steam sloop will make a run to the Louisiana coast There her crew will wind their way up the bayous to the real New World prize the Jennings Oil Field But Cantrell’s plans could be wrecked in a multitude of ways He faces often-hostile natives rambunctious Dutch ship captains allied colonies on the brink of starvation & vicious social infighting that can barely be contained by his capable & passionate new wife When the galleons finally come out in force to engage his small flotilla Eddie will discover that the Spanish aren’t the only enemies who will be coming against him in a fateful Caribbean show-down About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series “ This alternate history series is…a landmark…”— Booklist “ Eric Flint&s 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians”— Booklist “…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”— Publishers Weekly Meet the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “ Belisarius” alternate Roman history series including & with David Weber collaborated on 1633 & 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois Charles E Gannon is a rising star in science fiction with a multiple short story & novella publications in Baen anthologies Man-Kzin Wars XIII Analog & elsewhere His original trade paperback Fire With Fire was a national bestseller & Nebula award finalist Fire with Fire was also the winner of the Compton Crook Award for best first novel Its sequel is Trial by Fire Gannon is a contributing author in David Weber’s Beginnings World’s of Honor 6 Gannon is coauthor with Steve White of Extremis the latest entry in the legendary Starfire series created by David Weber He is also coauthor with alternate history master Eric Flint of 1635 The Papal Stakes & Wall Street Journal bestseller A multiple Fulbright scholar until recently Gannon was Distinguished Professor of American Literature at St Bonaventure University & now writes full time ...