Not long after the year 1000 A.D. a minor change in the history of the world occurs. By the year 1976, the world is drastically different from our own timeline, especially North America (or should we say Vinlandia?), now securely under the rule of various nations of the original indigenous population. This alternate world, just as real as the world of Tom--a student pilot from Virginia Beach--is unknown to him but exists right under his nose on the same earth on which he treads. Unknown, that is, until he steps through the stone archway. Tom enters a world where America was never founded and the only Europeans that inhabit North America, now called Vinlandia, are a few Vikings and a Christian priest or two. The English language he knows is spoken by no one.

For reasons he can't explain, the technology is 100 years behind, even though he didn't go back in time. But Tom must learn to adapt to the ways of the Vinlandians and earn their trust. From his debacle as a misfit nearly hanged for espionage to his acclaim as the decorated hero from Nowhere, Tom's new life sends him on an adventure that his friends and family back home could only dream of. Love, war, and the invention of the airplane await him as he drifts farther and farther from the Virginia Beach he left behind.Yet some things have never left his mind: Who lured him through the archway? Will he ever get home? Most importantly--would he go back if he could?.