Alexey Mechnikov is a doctor who just wasn't fated to die. Instead, he awoke in the body of a stranger: a young healer who'd run afoul of his own family. He's in a new world, in the nineteenth century, with magic as the foundation of civilization—and not a single privilege to his name: his father had already exiled his body's previous owner, leaving him bereft of everything, including the family name and his estate.But Alexey has no intention of giving up. His medical knowledge fro...

Alexey Mechnikov is used to treating disease. But now he'll have to learn to treat more than illness. Curses need a healer, too.His pet Tox has been infected with necrotic energy, and the Oath of the Healer demands that the animal be put down. But that's not an option. Time to find a cure!In Khopyorsk, tensions are rising between Baron Yelin and Leonid Rokotov, as other forces stir in the shadows—forces capable of plunging the entire city into chaos.