Banished to Eden is set in a futuristic world quite unlike our own, yet sprinkled throughout with hints of the past, we now know as our present. Although there is a dramatic transition from the present to this futuristic world, the reader is faced with the frightening yet intriguing realization that such a world could someday exist... and that it could very well be our own. In order to get her boss's job when she retired, Shannon volunteers for Maternal Duty to earn enough civil credits to get the job. After bonding with her progeny she loses it and desperately wants to be impregnated again even though it's not legal. Her only sin was she sincerely wanted to bring a progeny into this world and nourish and care for it. She longed to feel the fragile life moving and growing inside of her. She finally understood this was the purpose of her life. She bribed a professional Father to try impregnate her even though it was against the law. They were caught and banished to a project called EDEN. "Banished to Eden" is a story of adventure and intrigue. Can you imagine a world where women rule and men are superfluous? A world where a woman can have sex only one time and a second time warrants the death penalty? A world where male and female bodies look the same and have no bodily hair? "Banished to Eden" throws you head on into just such a world. Because of overpopulation and the scarcity of food, the government made engaging in sex a crime punishable by immediate execution. After so many couples were executed, the leaders realized they had to stop sex by a means that did not require restraint on the part of the citizens. This led to the spiking of the public water with a substance that chemically castrated them. Shannon, a chemist in the water department, discovered what the government had done and stopped drinking the spiked water. After she stops drinking it, her body begins normal growth and she develops large breasts and long hair. When her body is discovered, she is labeled a freak of nature. Shannon's choice is to drink the spiked water and become "normal" again or fight the system. Shannon is a fighter! "Banished to Eden" is primarily a love story. For anyone who cheers for love and passion to prevail, even in the face of great opposition and forbiddance, it is an inspiring love story reminiscent of "The Blue Lagoon" where a man and woman are secluded from all other humans and they have to survive on their own and rely only on each other. Just like the young boy and girl in "The Blue Lagoon," our couple has no idea on how to deal with these sexual feelings and urges because they come from a sexless society. While off the spiked water their bodies are going through sexual development. They fight against the new feelings they are having toward each other. Neither wants to show a weakness to the other.