Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him live down. Ah well; you win some, you lose some.) Edinburgh is where medical discovery is at in the age of New Enlightenment, and the city’s university offers everything James desires to get his career going—except […]