Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. In one of the poorest areas in London, two bodies are discovered – a woman, near death and a man, dead with his heart viciously removed. Paul Gibson, a surgeon/anatomist, has stumbled across this gruesome scene as he was heading home. […]
