Tamzen Hayes

An expecting mother, deeply troubled by and afraid of her unborn child, struggles to maintain her sanity and motherly instincts amidst a mess of medical imposition and mechanical oppression.

Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.