Edinburgh, 1828: James Willoughby arrives with dreams of surgical greatness—until he realizes cadavers don’t come easy. When the charming and unnervingly intense Nye MacKinnon offers him a shortcut into Surgeon’s Square, James accepts. His mistake? Nye’s a Resurrectionist—a body snatcher. And now, so is James.
Their partnership turns obsession as they supply corpses for science, but rival gangs and the infamous Burke and Hare close in fast. This isn’t academic ambition anymore—it’s survival.
Caught in a gothic maze of ambition, desire, and death, James must decide how far he’s willing to go for knowledge—and whether Nye is his salvation or his ruin.
Dark academia meets true crime in this razor-sharp debut. If you love macabre historical mysteries and morally fraught science, The Resurrectionist is your next late-night obsession.
