1634: The Galileo Affair (The Assiti Shards)

As the Thirty Years War continues to devastate Europe, the inhabitants of the American town mysteriously transported from the twentieth century to the seventeenth century confront a new foe, Cardinal Richelieu of France, who will do anything to stop a threat to his power, while working in Venice to prevent a plague and dealing with a Venetian artisan determined to rescue Galileo from a heresy charge.