In 1918 Wyoming, modern battlefield surgeon Scarlett Walker transmigrates into a plump, ill-fated side character in a WWI novel. Forced by her cruel stepmother to stand in for her spoiled stepsister Evelyn, she marries disabled war hero Captain Frank Dalton, who was left paralyzed and abandoned by his greedy family. Defying her destined tragic death, Scarlett uses her advanced medical knowledge to save Frank’s infected legs, reclaims his stolen pension and 160-acre homestead under the Homestead Act, and builds a booming smokehouse business supplying the Union Pacific Railroad. When Evelyn and Frank’s scheming relatives resort to poison and arson to seize everything, Scarlett outwits them all. Frank fully recovers, stands firmly by her side, and they seal their love with a grand church wedding as she becomes the most revered matriarch of Badman Creek.
