Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published Dec. 26, 2005 by Tor Books.
n the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company.
Great writing style but the sexually charged romance seems to have taken over the book. Readers already know the romance is doomed, so why go on?
