In Virginia DeMarce's witty and touching 'Pastor Kastenmayers Revenge', a Lutheran pastor gets even with the American who eloped with his daughter by scheming to gain new adherents through eight separate arranged marriages between Lutheran down-timers and American up-timers.
In other stories:
--- The same teenagers who launched the sewing machine industry in Volume 1 move on to conquer the financial world, in Gorg Huffs 'Other Peoples Money'.
--- Francis Turners's 'Hobsons Choice' tells the tale of the personal and theological impact of the Ring of Fire on rambunctious students and barmaids in the university town of Cambridge, England.
--- In Eva Musch's 'If the Demons Will Sleep', a woman terrorized by the notorious Hungarian countess Bartholdy finds peace and sanctuary in Grantville.
--- In Wood Hughes's 'Hell Fighters', a Benedictine monk confronts an inferno and finds his orders new calling.
