Thomas Dylan’s four-year-old kid has disappeared without a trace off their Virginia home. There’s no idea what occurred until Thomas can be abducted – by robed priests with electric cattle prods.

They take him through an interdimensional portal to a parallel America. There, the priests guideline the Imperial Patriotic Claims, a backward nation suffering from horrific plagues. Healing comes not from medicine but from the Goddess, who dispenses favour in exchange for human sacrifice. The victims result from our world.

Thomas looks for his child, who he expectations is still alive. Along the way, he’ll encounter revolutionaries, romance, and magic. He may prove to be one one who can end the sacrifices. But this means determining whether to discover his son or conserve two worlds.