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Cover art: Ron Wood
Blurb: “What if you woke up one morning and your town was in a strange, dangerous world?
A group of American archeology students have converged on a rocky hill in Turkey to conduct required field work for their degrees. One young member of the team uncovers what appears to be a shard of polished jade. After three days of digging, the team unearths a sizable fragment of dull green material highly radioactive and deadly. The fragment is seized by the U.S. military which believes it is a remnant from the hull of a UFO. All those involved are sworn to secrecy and the incident fades as quickly as it occurred.
In a top-secret government installation near the quiet town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the residents of the town observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. In the morning they wake to find that they have been literally cut off from the rest of the world.
A perfect circle centering on the
research laboratory has been sliced from the earth and catapulted into an alternate reality.
When the town is discovered by the bewildered leaders of this other world, the people of Two Rivers learn they've arrived in a rigid theocracy.
The authorities, known as the Bureau de la Convenance Religieuse, have ordered Linneth Stone, a young woman ethnologist, to analyze the arrivals and report her findings to the Lieutenant in charge.
Linneth's studies reveal some amazing truths about the midwestern town, whose independent spirit contradicts the narrow-mindedness and repressiveness of the Bureau. And she knows that the very existence of Two Rivers challenges the philosophic basis of her society-and promises unavoidable confrontation.“