Bright young doctor Ovid Vere changes his plans after the beautiful girl he follows one night turns out to be his step-cousin Carmina. Though she inherits a fortune, she must obey her fathers dying wish and live with Ovids mother. Ovid and Carmina fall in love despite her troubling fainting spells and his mothers attempts to keep them apart. Theres more trouble aheadin addition to this heart-centered plot, Collins also offers up a grimmer scientific one, featuring neurologist Nathan Benjulia, whose experimental use of live animals allows Collins to champion the antivivisectionist cause.
| ISBN: | 9781411458765 |
| Publication date: | 5th July 2011 |
| Author: | Collins, Wilkie |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |