Ring of Fire: Americas: vol. 2

1636: Commander Cantrell In The West Indies

Plot

Oil. The Americas have it. The United States of Europe needs it. Without oil, all hopes for the time-traveling town of Grantville, West Virginia, to bring science and industry into the heart of a European continent not yet comfortable with modernity. Enter Lieutenant Commander Eddie Cantrell, daring up-time leader of this venture into the western seas. But Cantrell's plans could be wrecked in a multitude of ways. Spanish admirals are after him, natives don't like him, allied colonists want to change his mission, and there are other enemies both close and far with even fewer scruples, determined to hang the commander from a yardarm. It all comes down to one fateful battle in the halcyon Caribbean ...