Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles the man her family hope will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor. But when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit she finds herself his reluctant ally. Beneath the genteel façade of upper class Edinburgh lurks blackmail adultery poison and madness and Sarah must venture into its slums back alleys and asylums to discover the dark past about a family where no one is what they seem even Miles himself...

Part of the Sarah Gilchrist series.