The Medicine Woman of Galveston

Once a trailblazer in medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley abandoned the scalpel after a fatal operating-theater mistake and now works in a corset factory to support her disabled son. When that livelihood is threatened and debts mount, Tucia accepts a place in a traveling medicine show led by the wily, charismatic Huey, lending the troupe legitimacy while privately loathing the purveyed tonics and purgatives. The show travels to Galveston, Texas, where Tucia tries to break free from Huey but becomes entangled in his schemes. A September storm swells into the devastating Galveston Hurricane of 1900 that will decimate the Gulf Coast and force Tucia to confront her faith in medicine, other people, and herself.