Edinburgh, 1817.
Hazel Sinnett is a lady
who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.
Jack Currer
is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s
too easy to die.
When the two of them have a chance encounter
outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at
first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s
lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new
acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel
has made a deal with Dr. Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination
on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. Without official
lessons, though, Hazel will need more than just her books – she’ll need
bodies to study, corpses to dissect.
Lucky that she’s made the
acquaintance of someone who digs them up for a living, then.
But
Jack has his own problems: strange men have been seen skulking around
cemeteries, his friends are disappearing off the streets. Hazel and Jack
work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves,
but in the very heart of Edinburgh society.