{"title":"Jeff High","description":"After growing up on a farm in rural Tennessee, Jeff High attained degrees in literature and nursing. He is the three-time winner, in fiction and poetry, of an annual writing contest held by Vanderbilt Medical Center. He lived in Nashville for many years, and throughout the country as a travel nurse, before returning to his original hometown, near where he now works as an operating room RN in open-heart surgery. He is the author of the first Watervalley Novel,  More Things In Heaven and Earth.","products":[{"product_id":"the-splendor-of-ordinary-days-2nd-edition-a-novel-of-watervalley-paperback","title":"The Splendor Of Ordinary Days. 2nd Edition: A Novel of Watervalley - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a rocky start as Watervalley's only doctor, Luke Bradford has decided to stay in town, honoring the three year commitment he made tto pay off his medical school depts. 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But to pay back his student loans and to fulfill a promise from his past, he heads for Watervalley, Tennessee--and immediately stumbles into one disaster after another. Will he be labeled the town idiot before he's even introduced as the new doctor? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVery quickly he faces some big challenges--from resuscitating a three-hundred-pound farmer who goes into cardiac arrest to not getting shot by a local misanthrope for trespassing. He expects the people of Watervalley to be simple, but finds his relationships with them are complicated, whether he's interacting with his bossy but devout housekeeper, the attractive schoolteacher he consistently alienates, or the mysterious kid next door who climbs trees while wearing a bike helmet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a baffling flu epidemic hits Watervalley, Luke faces his ultimate test. Whether the community embraces him or not, it's his responsibility to save them. 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