London, 1886.   Jo Smith has already had to start her life over from scratch several times. So when her husband-in-name-only and his paramour announce they re pregnant, she dreads the prospect of starting over again--and fears that moment is imminent. After all, why wouldn t he want to officially tie the knot and make their family legitimate? Desperately seeking relevance, Jo feigns a knowledge of midwifery, before soon realizing she s in over her head, and seeking the help of her friend s physician sister, Emily Clarke.    Emily’s own mother died in childbirth, leaving her father devastated and her family permanently fragmented, and so she’s very hesitant to take on obstetric patients—particularly when they come attached to the annoyingly attractive but decidedly profane and improper Jo. However, as a female physician, it’s hard for Emily to be taken seriously in any other subfield, and now her father is dropping ominous