This second novel of the trilogy centers around a set of turns in Mid-Western Iowa, along the Mississippi River. There, in multiple picturesque settings, enters Claudette Monet in search of inspiration for her paintings. She is already well known to readers from our first novel in the trilogy, Claudette Monet in America. In New York Blast Off she encounters some troubling circumstances that are highly dramatic. From the East Coast, she ventures across the Midwest to California for artistic inspiration. After all this, the scene shifts to NYC.