The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore
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Once a trailblazing doctor, Tucia Hatherley is forced into a menacing swindler’s traveling medicine show to support her disabled son in this haunting story set against the devastating Galveston Hurricane of 1900.
Tucia hasn’t touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, struggling to earn enough to support her son. When even that livelihood is threatened, she is left with one option—to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and lend her medical license to his traveling medicine show.
The cures and tonics Tucia is forced to peddle are little more than purgatives and bathwater. Loathing the duplicity, even as she finds uneasy kinship with the other misfit performers, Tucia vows to leave as soon as her debts are paid and start a new life with her son—if Huey will ever let her go.
When the show reaches Galveston, Texas, Tucia tries to break free from Huey, only to be pulled deeper into his schemes. But a far greater reckoning lies ahead as a September storm becomes a devastating hurricane that will decimate the Gulf Coast—and challenge Tucia to recover her belief in medicine, in the goodness of others, and in herself.
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