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A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austens Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home. Lucy Crawford is part of a wealthy, well-respected Southern family with a long local history. But since Lucys mother passed away, the family home, a gorgeous antebellum mansion, has fallen into disrepair and the depth of her fathers debts is only starting to be understood. Selling the family home may be the only optionuntil her Aunt Olympia floats the idea of using Crawford house to hold the local free medical clinic, which has just lost its space. As if turning the plantation home into a clinic isnt bad enough, Lucy is shocked and dismayed to see that the doctor who will be manning the clinic is none other than Jeremiah Chevyher first love.