DNF

Charlotte had just undergone a mastectomy. Marriage was the last thing on her mind. But to honor her grandfather’s dying wish, she agreed to marry the second grandson of New York’s most powerful mafia family. It was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Loveless. Until the veil lifted at the altar—And it wasn’t her fiancé standing there. It was Cassian Moretti. Her fiancé’s older brother. The man she kissed once to escape danger. The man who never forgot. He’d kidnapped his own brother. Planted a bomb beneath the church. And told the Marry us, or watch it burn. So she became his. Not out of love—But out of fire, obsession, and control. He locked her away. Mocked her mastectomy scars. Told her she looked like a man. Only touched her in the dark—never face-to-face. She was his wife. His prisoner. His punishment. Until she left. No warning. No note. Just silence. Now, he’s tearing through cities—Destroying anyone who might know where she’s gone. Because losing her Was the one wound He’ll never survive.

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. A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.