When fifteen-year-old nerd and gamer Max Anderson thinks hes sneaking a preview of an unpublished video game, he doesnt realize that 1) Hes been chosen as a beta, an experimental test player. 2) He's playing the ultimate history game, transporting him into the actual past: anywhere and anytime. And 3) Survival is optional: to return home he must decipher the games rules and complete its missionsif he lives long enough. To fail means to stay in the pastforever. Now Max is trapped in medieval Germany, unprepared and clueless. It is 1471 and he quickly learns that being an outcast may cost him his head. Especially after rescuing a beautiful peasant girl from a deadly infection and thus provoking sinister wannabe Duke Ott. Overnight he is dragged into a hornets nest of feuding lords who will stop at nothing to bring down the conjuring stranger in their midst.
