Based on the life of activist and scholar Katharine Bushnell, Lutz combines solid research and gripping storytelling to present the story of a woman who changed the world.
In 1886, thirty-one-year-old Katharine Bushnell gives up her medical practice to work with women living on Hell's Half Acre in Chicago and in the brutal lumber camps of Wisconsin. Motivated by her passion to see women released from bondage, Kate prepares a report on her findings of the women's trials and torments. When Wisconsin's governor demands Kate defend her report to the state legislature, will they believe her or brand her a liar?
