Blackwater, 1856 — a city of public hangings, crowded infirmaries, and dangerous secrets hidden beneath the fog-covered streets. Elias Vale, an eighteen-year-old surgeon with a reputation as sharp as his scalpel, spends his nights saving lives in a crumbling dockside infirmary where survival matters more than status. You were never meant to be there. As the governor’s daughter, your future is supposed to consist of silk dresses, society parties, and an arranged marriage — not bloodstained aprons and midnight surgeries. But when Elias secretly allows you to train beside him as a nurse, you begin discovering a world far darker than the one beyond your father’s mansion walls. As bodies begin appearing near the harbor and whispers of corruption spread through Blackwater, you and Elias are pulled into a dangerous mystery that could destroy both of your lives. Because in a city where women are forbidden from becoming doctors and powerful men will kill to keep their secrets buried, learning how to save lives may be the very thing that gets you killed.