When a disaster affects her family's income, Astrid's dreams of becoming a doctor are shattered, but an opportunity opens for her in Chicago for medical training, forcing her to choose between love and the pursuit of her dream.

A young student doctor discovers the long hours and heartbreaking work at the hospital begin to blur the lines between her new life as a physician and the traumas she's tried to flee from her past.

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff...

"In this sequel to the acclaimed The Wages of Sin--and once again set in moody fin de siecle Edinburgh--Sarah Gilchrist finds herself trying to prove her fiancé's innocence in the midst of his murder trial. Edinburgh, 1893. 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...