Dr. Belle Foster never planned to become anyone's miracle.
She planned to become useful.
Useful enough to treat fevers when no one else would come. Useful enough to cook food that restored bodies along with dignity. Useful enough to pray out loud in empty places when silence felt dangerous.
After surviving a violent storm that tears her from the train and leaves her stranded in open wilderness, Belle finds herself injured, disoriented, and utterly dependent on mercy she did not expect. Stripped of her instruments and forced into stillness, she learns that obedience sometimes begins before action—and that being healed can be harder than doing the healing.
What begins as survival becomes transformation.
Among people history rarely pauses to honor, Belle rediscovers medicine in its oldest form: careful hands, watchful listening, nourishing food, and prayer that rises like breath. Kitchens become sanctuaries. Field tents become places of deliverance. Babies are born where no doctor was ever meant to stand. And Belle's faith—unpolished, unperformed, and honest—draws questions long before it draws approval.
But mercy lived outside sanctioned spaces never stays invisible for long.
As word spreads of a woman doctor healing where she was never authorized to serve, Belle is forced to confront a cost she cannot escape. To stay means danger. To leave means abandonment. And to obey God fully may require her to walk away from the very place where her calling finally took root.
Curvy, Curvy, Curvy, Dr. Belle, MD is the opening novel in A Call to Soiled Doves—a faith-centered historical series following courageous women doctors, nurses, and healers who are sent to minister where society turns its face away. Each story stands alone while answering the same sacred summons: to serve women deemed unworthy of care and to bear witness to healing that happens without applause.
Written with gentle humor, spiritual depth, and frontier realism, this novel is for readers who believe God works most powerfully in quiet obedience—and that survival itself can be holy.
Dr. Belle is still breathing.
And that is exactly where the call begins.