"Physician, heal thyself," are
words Doctor MacKenzie "Mac" Reardon never thought he would hear,
although he has seen far too much sickness and death in his thirty years.
Possum Holler,
West Virginia, has suffered numerous tragedies without a doctor and with a
hospital nearly one hundred miles away.
The people are poor and backward.
At last, one of their own has become a doctor. Doctor Reardon returns to his hometown to
find his own heartache might be something no medicine can heal as he struggles
with a narrow-minded community, ignorance, a rocky marriage to a city girl,
Felicia Chambry Reardon, and an overwhelming attraction to the new school
teacher/principal, Sunny Bankston, at the newly established school.
Having met Sunny
while in his ER rotation at Cook County Hospital when he was an intern and she
had been shot in a school violence incident, Mac knows the spirit of the woman,
a spirit that is more akin to his than the spirit of the woman he married. Mac struggles against overwhelming odds to
bring his community into the twenty-first century even as Sunny Bankston
battles her own demons, including an attraction to MacKenzie Reardon.
The first installment in the Hillbilly Hijinks series, Homegrown
Healer follows MacKenzie Reardon, but his three friends Tipper Campbell,
Gator Jones, and Alain Richter stay in stride with him as these four young men
determine the future of Possum Holler.
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