Kage Baker

Trained by the Company, a group of cultural preservationists from the twenty-fourth century, Mendoza is sent back in time to Shakespearean England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden and meets a man who will change her destiny. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

In the Garden of Iden

Jacalyn Boggs

This book was interesting as a window of the past but it was lacking that thing that really draws you in. Perhaps it was the lack of outright conflict. I do like the world that has been set, but this wouldn't be the type of book I'd find myself returning to time and time again.

In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company. Mendoza is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. Her quest is jeopardized by Nicholas Harpole, who stirs unfamiliar emotions within her about her future--with a man she will long outlive.

In the Garden of Iden

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