Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to become a surgeon more than she wants to get married. Jack Carrer is a resurrection man trying to survive in a city where it’s so easy to die. When the young people cross paths with the Royal Anatomical Society, Hazel doesn’t think much of it. But after she’s expelled from a lecture by the famed surgeon Dr. Beecham, she realizes her new acquaintance might be far more useful than she ever expected. All because of a deal Hazel made with her lecturer: if she prepares herself and passes the exam, he’ll allow her to continue her medical career. She’s denied entry to classes, so she’ll need books—and bodies for practical study. How lucky that now she knows someone who professionally digs up corpses. But Jack has his own reasons to be worried: strange people loiter around cemeteries, his friends vanish right off the streets, and the Roman fever that killed thousands of lives just a few years ago is returning to the city. And nobody seems to care. Except Hazel. Now Hazel and Jack will have to work together to uncover secrets buried not just in nameless graves, but at the heart of Edinburgh society.