Hickory, Dick-ory, Doc

Everybody in Cane Hollow has a story about Hickory Canton. Krysta Boyt is about to discover the man behind the legend.

Krysta has three children, a truck that starts when it feels like it, and a night-shift nursing job that barely keeps the bills paid. She has learned to keep going, keep smiling, and keep her heart out of trouble. Then her youngest puts a Lego up his nose, and the enormous stranger she scolds in the waiting room turns out to be the hospital's new doctor.

Army veteran Richard Canton came home to North Georgia for a quiet farm, a few goats, and room to be alone. He certainly didn't plan on a sharp-tongued nurse with brightly colored hair, three children who call him Bear, or a place at a kitchen table he can't stop thinking about.

A repaired porch step becomes an invitation. An evening with the goats becomes something worth hoping for. And beneath the town's jokes about a hickory stick, Krysta finds a man learning how to let people close.

But when her abusive husband gets out of prison, the life she's built is threatened. Richard's instinct to protect collides with the past he's carried home, and love asks more of them than either expected.

Hickory, Dick-ory, Doc is an emotional Southern romance about earned trust, the family you choose, and finding the courage to build a home together. With small-town humor, tender family moments, and a hard-won happily ever after. Intimate scenes fade to black; the story includes domestic violence and its aftermath.