Charlotte Harkness has (quite cheerfully) accepted that she'll never find love. An undertaker's daughter who reads embalming manuals and hears the dearly departed? It's enough to make any Victorian patriarch despair. When Lavinia Everly's corpse arrives at Harkness and Sons, Charlotte is tormented by the girl's final memories, her death at the hands of the mysterious "Jack." Charlotte knows she must find the killer before madness consumes her. Dr. James Everly shuns society's rules to find out who killed his little sister. When he joins forces with the undertaker's daughter, he never expected his new ally to be so quick-witted and beautiful. James and Charlotte agree to pose as a courting couple to continue their investigations. Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. As danger mounts, Charlotte and James race to stop "Jack" before he can strike again. Will they succeed, or become the next victims on his list?