Fred McKibben has been an avid reader his entire life. He enjoys both fiction and non-fiction with a particular interest in history, science, anthropology and politics. He prefers stories with believable plot lines and characters who do believable things. Fred live in Tampa, Florida with my wife and two Scottish Terriers. After many years as a finance executive and entrepreneur, he decided to try his hand at writing fiction. The Eden Project (previously published as Hot Times in the Garden of Eden) is his debut novel and the first of The Gardeners series.