Runner Up Paris Book Festival Runner Up Southern California Book Festival What really happened in the Garden of Eden? How did humans live ten thousand years ago? In this story, set a thousand years after Adam and Eve were exiled from Eden, Elwin’s family learned to scratch food and clothing from the earth, develop tools, customs, and laws, and find selfishness and lust in themselves as well as generosity and courage. They walked a long trek to find their origins, fought to save their families, invented writing to decipher an ancient stone, and learned from it that their Maker would return someday to redeem their hopes.