He is a fugitive living under an alias. His identity has been discovered. Now, his only path of escape leads to the Garden of Eden. John Surratt, a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, is a fugitive living under an alias as a pontifical Zouave, a soldier of the Papal States. Recognized by an acquaintance and desperate to flee, John has no choice but to join the expedition of Dr. Key, a wealthy American explorer with a mad dream: To discover Eden. Now, John finds himself a man torn between two worlds and two women: A temptress from the world of man and an innocent from the land of Eden. The Garden of Eden has been off-limits to mankind since the dawn of time, but deep within a remote mountain range in the Middle East, history's original lost world still lies hidden. This is the story of its discovery.