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IN THE GARDEN OF IDEN introduced both a formidably talented storyteller and an unforgettable the immortal, tragic, romantic Mendoza, snatched from certain death in the cells of the Spanish Inquisition for a limitless life of dedicated slavery. In the second novel of Mendoza's adventures, the 16th century girl is saved from the Spanish Inquisition only to be transformed into a 24th century cyborg (a partly artificial person). The time is now the 1860s, and Mendoza, who has never recovered from losing her lover to martyrdom in the 1540s, is in California being a botanist and living with other immortals. Suddenly a man who is her lover's exact double appears - an English spy intent on stealing California from the Americans while they are fighting their civil war.