West Lakeport is the sequel to the book, Mulburn. After Amy and Chad reunited last Christmas Eve, both their lives took a turn that neither one of them expected. Amy thought her days of being with Bill Williams were over until he showed up one horrible evening at her front door. Amy ends up in a coma at Tawas General, and once again, her childhood friend, Tim Blackett, is her attending physician. During this time, Chad is unable to deal with her condition because he is still mourning the death of his beloved grandmother. Meanwhile, there is a mysterious young woman that is traveling with her infant daughter, on a journey toward Mulburn. What is it about her appearance that turns the peaceful town of Mulburn upside down? Her arrival brings surprising revelations that will forever change the lives of the residents of Mulburn.

In Westerns, women transmit complicated cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionism, heroism, family life, manliness and American femininity. As the genre changes and matures, depictions of women have transitioned from traditional to more modern roles. Frontier Feminine charts these significant shifts in the Western's transmission of gender values and expectations and aims to expand the critical arena in which Western film is situated by acknowledging the importance of women in this genre.