Books in the Company Novel series

Facilitator Joseph has outlasted entire civilizations during his twenty-thousand years of service to Dr Zeus, the twenty-fourth century Company that created immortal operatives like him to preserve history and culture. The year is 1699 and Joseph is now in Alta California, to imitate an ancient Native-American Coyote god.

In the twenty-fourth 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. The death of her lover has been followed by centuries of heartbreak.