New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book and the first book in The Company series, an innovative time travel series. Mendoza, a cyborg and trained botanist from the 24th century is sent back to Renaissance England where the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary is underway. Gardner Dozois called her writing "fresh, audacious..wry, jazzy, irreverent, sharp as a razor, full of daring,dash and elan, suprisingly lyrical.... and one hell of a storyteller." 329 pp. Dust jacket art by Michael Koelsch. ISBN: 0-151002991.