Demography is destiny In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems Atheism in Europe has been exterminated Homosexuals are hanged stoned or crucified Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude a form of second class citizenship They are denied arms denied civil rights denied a voice & specially taxed via the Koranic yizya Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continent&s new masters In that world Petra a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her family&s yizya dreams of escape Unlike most girls of the day Petra can read & in her only real possession her grandmother&s diary a diary detailing the fall of European civilization Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea America About the Author Tom Kratman in 1974 at age seventeen became a political refugee & defector from the PRM (People&s Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch Tom is currently an attorney practicing in southwest Virginia Baen published his first novel A State of Disobedience & two collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series Watch on the Rhine & Yellow Eyes His latest novels are A Desert Called Peace & its sequel Carnifex