The Life of the World to Come — Kage Baker

From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.

Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, and Incorporated--the Company--to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love, whose man has died.

"Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, she tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost. For Three. Thousand. Years. Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.