The Anatomy Duology Books in Order

The Anatomy Duology starts with Anatomy, where Hazel Sinnett wants to be a surgeon in 1817 Edinburgh, even though the world around her expects marriage, manners, and obedience. After she is thrown out of Dr. Beecham's lectures for being a woman, she makes a bargain that sets the whole story in motion: if she can pass the medical exam on her own, she can keep pursuing medicine. To do that, she needs bodies to study, which is how she ends up working with Jack Currer, a resurrection man who digs up the dead for cash.

That is not a great sign that this will be a quiet series.

What makes the books work is the way Hazel and Jack come from very different corners of the same city. Hazel has money, status, and a fierce belief that she can force a door open. Jack knows graveyards, theaters, alleyways, and the parts of Edinburgh that polite society would rather ignore. When they start working together, the series gets both its romance and its tension. They need each other, but they do not see the world in the same way, especially when class, risk, and survival come into it.

Edinburgh matters a lot here. The duology uses lecture halls, drawing rooms, cemeteries, and narrow streets to build a world where science is changing quickly and ethics are struggling to keep up. There is body snatching, experimental medicine, missing people, and a lingering fear of disease. The first book, Anatomy, reads like a gothic mystery with a strong medical streak. It has candlelight, secrets, and a heroine who is as interested in the human body as she is in love.

Immortality widens the frame without losing the series' core. Hazel is still trying to practice medicine and protect her future, but the story moves beyond Edinburgh's graveyards and into the orbit of Princess Charlotte and the British court. The stakes get larger, and so do the questions. Who gets to decide what science is for? Who gets saved, and who gets used? The second book adds court politics, secret societies, and more pressure on Hazel to prove that her work matters in rooms full of people who would rather dismiss her.

These books like both kisses and cadavers.

Across the duology, the ongoing thread is Hazel's fight to learn, heal, and choose her own life, with Jack as both ally and complication. The tone sits somewhere between YA romance, murder mystery, and medical gothic. If you want fast-moving historical fiction with sharp banter, a determined heroine, eerie atmosphere, and just enough horror to make the candlelight feel shaky, this series delivers that mix very well.