Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time Part 1

The author directly addresses readers to declare this novel as a story shaped by conflict between emotion and science. Ovid Vere, a young surgeon, is forced to rest after exhausting professional demands. While preparing for travel, he is diverted by a chain of seemingly trivial events. These lead to his encounter with the mysterious Carmina and her guardian Teresa. This meeting quietly initiates a collision between private feeling and public controversy.