Idealistic youth and dangerous love clash with the dark secrets of a nation on the brink in this high-wire thriller that looks at history through an altered lens. In summer 1944, Riley Danovan seeks to escape the hardscrabble streets of the nation’s capital, Philadelphia. Now 22 and in love, he believes hard work, faith, and loyalty will lead him to fulfilling his dreams. Yet in a world dominated by the centuries-old Spanish Empire, Riley’s Federation of America is a young, ambitious nation - perhaps too ambitious. For there are forces who need pawns in their coming crusade. Will Riley escape their reach? An alternate history with a shattering truth about Earth - and all those that came before.