I was a promising surgical professor, but I found myself becoming the disciple of Dr. Liston, the master of amputation in 19th-century London.

Why am I crying…?

A brilliant modern surgeon dies at the height of his career and wakes in nineteenth-century England—reborn in a world where surgery is butchery, infection is fate, and doctors kill as often as they cure.

Trapped in an age of bloodletting, public amputations, and filthy anatomy halls, he enters medical school determined to survive, outwit prejudice, and drag medicine into the future with his own two hands.

But in a city where even the dead may be buried alive, changing the world could cost him everything.