Just checked out the book on Amazon and the Kindle version was $0.00. I am a Amazon Prime member, so this may be a benefit, but worth checking out if you have any interest in the book.

I have been enjoying a number of the books (Golden Pinnacle, Pendulum of Justice) recommended in the Gulch and have not been disappointed yet.

I'm not familiar with this one, but I have often thought that an interesting alternate history saga could be made from the idea that a group fled Europe and organized a colony in America, not to establish a theocracy, but to free themselves from the yoke of the church (many colonial settlers did come here individually for such reasons).

Imagine a Jamestown populated not by Puritans but by professors, engineers, inventors (Da Vinci in America!). They might well arrive under the banner of the Freemasons, which has protected free thought and the rights of free men since the days when such ideas were virtually unheard of.

What might happen in such a colony? I would expect it to be far more interesting that the stories of some of the actual colonies, which were noted for disease, starvation, and vanishing mysteriously, likely because of a combination of the two.

Lord, this book has been around for at least ten-twelve years and had several sequels and spinoffs. 1632 and 1633 are great reads and wonderful alternate history stories. I think David Weber collaborated on 1633 and on 1634:The Baltic War. He's the author of the long lived Honor Harrington series, with its attendant Honorverse iterations. Glad you found the book.

Sounds fun

This was all that stuff with the anabaptists. I never understood how the violence got so horrific over what to my modern understanding seem like minor differences in religious opinion.

You folks might want to google "Eric Flint politics".

Thank you for the recommendation! I just sent it to my Kindle. I am amazed that it is $0?