In the 1800’s, some people practiced “grave robbing” in order to perform autopsies on a patient’s body in order to develop a cure for disease. 
In this story, a young lady, Josephine, is sworn to help grave robbers in order to keep her father from being killed by those whom he owed a debt to. 
Josephine dies and is buried and brought back to life again by a doctor who steals bodies.
In order to protect her father she must help his associates gain new bodies from accidental deaths. She gets a job in a mill, and mysterious accidents start happening, and her employer, Braham, a former slave, is drawn to Josephine and he does not know her secrets.
You will enjoy reading this exciting story, and you will be left guessing of the outcome until the end of the book.