First published 2022
Hazel Sinnett dreams of becoming a surgeon, not a wife. When Dr. Beecham throws her out of his anatomy lectures for being female, he offers her one chance: pass the medical examination alone and he will let her continue. She needs corpses to study, which leads her to Jack Currer, a resurrection man who digs up bodies to survive on Edinburgh's dangerous streets. Jack has troubles of his own. Strange men lurk around cemeteries, his friends vanish without explanation, and the deadly Roman fever returns to claim new victims. The authorities ignore the deaths until Hazel takes notice. She and Jack form an unlikely partnership, combining her medical ambitions with his knowledge of the city's underground. Together they must expose the corruption hiding within Edinburgh's elite society while dodging both the law and mysterious enemies who want them silenced.
Genres: historical-fiction, adventure, 19th-century, academic
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Edinburgh
Period: 19th-century
338 pages · Hardcover · Wednesday Books
Content warnings: violence