This was truly one of the best books I've read. It was everything that I like in a book. Great characters you fall in love with, awesome dialog, real romance, and a great story. This is a climb on the bed or in a comfortable chair with tea and a blanket and read all day kinda book. It's great. I loved it. Here's a synopsis:

*From www.adrianatrigiani.com
It's 1978 and 35-year-old Ave Maria Mulligan is the self-proclaimed spinster of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, a sleepy hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As the local pharmacist, she's been keeping the townfolks' secrets for years, but she's about to discover a skeleton in her own family's tidy closet that will blow the lid right off her quiet, uneventful life. Soon she finds herself juggling two marriage proposals, conducting a no-holds-barred family feud, directing the prestigious Outdoor Drama and keeping the town's dysfunctional Rescue Squad on its toes.
The crazy-quilt of characters includes Jack MacChesney ("Jack Mac" to his friends), the stoic miner with coal dust on his hands but love in his heart; Iva Lou Wade, the sexpot Bookmobile librarian; Theodore Tipton, band leader extraordinaire; Preacher Elmo Gaspar, the snake-handling Freewill Baptist; and Pearl Grimes, a coal-miner's daughter on the verge of a miraculous transformation, thanks to Ave's intervention.

There are 4 books in the Big Stone Gap series so you can keep reading and reading!
1) Big Stone Gap
2) Big Cherry Holler
3) Milk Glass Moon
4) Home to Big Stone Gap

Enjoy!