In the Garden of Iden

"Baker's characterizations are robust and detailed, as is her development of the historical setting . . . [Readers] will recognize in Baker a fantasist of considerable promise." -Publishers Weekly

The Dr. Zeus Company, working from the twenty-fourth century, finds orphans in the past and makes them immortal, training them to preserve lost treasure, cultural artifacts, and extinct life forms for the future-and for profit. Mendoza is one of those orphans, rescued from the Spanish Inquisition, ...