Burdy

Synopsis

When It Is Healing They Need, The People At Christian Bend, Tennessee, Turn To One Woman--burdy Luttrell. Melungeon By Birth, Burdy Learned The Therapeutic Properties Of Roots From The Women In Her Family. When Burdy Discovers That Lincoln Memorial University Is Hosting A Class On Healing Roots, She Persuades Her Friend, Mayne, To Drive Her Up. The Two Women Make A Fateful Stop At Laidlow Pharmacy At Bean Station Where An Armed Gunman Executes Three People And Critically Injures Another. Burdy--the Woman Able To Cure Others--is Now Fighting For Her Life At University Of Tennessee Medical Center In Knoxville. One Thing Is Keeping Burdy Alive--she Has To Tell Rain, The Boy She Has Cared For Since Birth, The Secret She's Kept From Him All These Years.