The story of Otto Kerchner's life continues in this book with the unexpected turns, warmly portrayed characters, and richly remembered settings that readers have come to expect from the Beyond the Blue Horizon series. Otto and his friends experience a suspicious crash of the baseball team bus, six funerals, a secret mission to Cuba with time spent in a Cuban jail, a mass shooting, a meningitis outbreak in their aviation camp, and an encounter with a woman who may or may not be Amelia Earhart. explores the same values of Midwestern America during the middle of the twentieth century-as did the previous installments in the series-with rich detail that harkens back to a vanished era, all the while paving the way for continued adventures, unexpected encounters, and a range of characters in upcoming books.