Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past-as a major in the Czar's Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, ten years later, Grig discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well.