The Dead Boy's Papers

Catherine Lydon has been doing her drunk father's surgeries since she was fifteen—stitching wounds behind a curtain while Cincinnati looks the other way. When cholera kills her father and a bone tumor threatens to kill her younger sister, Cate faces an impossible choice: watch Prue die, sell her to a loveless marriage, or steal a dead boy's identity and fight her way into the surgical theaters of Paris. Armed with her brother's baptismal papers and a blade-steady hand, she sails east into a world that will destroy her if it discovers what she is.