The Undying of Obedience Wellrest

To the horror of young grave-digger, Ned, body-snatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the dead of night. Until now, he'd been daydreaming about another visitor, daughter of the manor, Obedience Wellrest. But 16-year-old Obedience has troubles of her own: her loving but overbearing father, and his wish to see her married to a rich man of science, Phineas Mordaunt. But when Mordaunt starts to poke his nose into her family history -- in particular, the ruinous research of late Uncle Herbert -- Obedience enters into a dangerous game of Death, and Ned might be the only person who can save her.