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By day, Jack Dawkins wears a clean white apron at the local hospital, resetting bones and stitching gaping wounds with the precise hands of a master surgeon. By night, he slips into a midnight-blue coat and a dark silk mask, working the foggy streets for Fagin to pay off a mountain of debts. Jack balances his separate worlds on a razor-sharp edge-until a fierce cry echoes down a cobblestone alleyway.
Lady Alisha Howard is not your ordinary noblewoman. At just sixteen years old, she is a completely orphaned heiress to a massive £60,000 fortune, her wealthy parents having been brutally murdered in their beds months prior. Strikingly gorgeous, analytical, and possessing a brilliant mind for clinical medicine, Alisha dreams of a day when society will allow a woman to become a licensed doctor.
When a gang of street thugs surrounds her carriage to kidnap her for ransom, Jack drops from the shadows to rescue her. Alisha isn't fooled for long. Far too smart to miss the anatomical precision of her masked savior's combat moves, she easily traces the mysterious thief straight back to the hospital casualty ward.
What follows is a dangerous, high-stakes game of cat and mouse. From the glittering chandeliers of high-society ballrooms to the locked vaults of the London Commerce Bank, Jack and Alisha must become an unstoppable team to uncover the dark truth behind her parents' murder. Along the way, they must navigate greedy hospital governors, lovesick suitors, and a thick, suffocating sexual tension that threatens to shatter every strict professional boundary they have set.
Bound by a secret compact behind locked office doors, they are a surgeon and an assistant by day, but passionate partners by night. Can a rogue from the mud and a diamond of the nobility truly claim a future together, or will the ruthless rules of 1850 London tear them apart?