Winner - 2012 Alice B. Lavender Certificate
Honorable Mention - 2012 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Honorable Mention - 2012 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Debut Novel
2011 Lesbian Fiction Reader's Choice Award - Favorite General Fiction Book
2011 Lesbian Fiction Reader's Choice Award - Favorite Romance Book
On Autostraddle’s list of 100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho–a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds fall by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals. She becomes fast friends with Maddie Stevenson, the enigmatic physician who has returned to the backcountry community to take over her late father’s medical practice. Together they learn that life and love can have as many twists and turns as a country road.
Honorable Mention - 2012 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Honorable Mention - 2012 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Debut Novel
2011 Lesbian Fiction Reader's Choice Award - Favorite General Fiction Book
2011 Lesbian Fiction Reader's Choice Award - Favorite Romance Book
On Autostraddle’s list of 100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho–a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds fall by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals. She becomes fast friends with Maddie Stevenson, the enigmatic physician who has returned to the backcountry community to take over her late father’s medical practice. Together they learn that life and love can have as many twists and turns as a country road.
