A Home for Wayward Husbands

In the style of Fannie Flagg and Billie Letts, Johnee Cherry brings to life the askew characters of a small East Texas town in A Home for Wayward Husbands. Beau Smith is a tormented bad boy, rich, gorgeous, and full of potential, but he has an out-of-control controlling father, Leon, and a demented mother, Suzanna, putting the Smith family in the center of gossip and innuendo in Atlanta, Texas. There's no hiding for the Smith family, who owns most of the town and lives in the center of Atlanta's universe. When he falls head-over-heals in love with the strawberry blond –bomb, Bitzy Jeter, the daughter of a low-life chicken farmer, Louie Jeter, his mistakes keep mounting. Bitzy is a sweet gullible girl without a bad bone in her body, who could care less about the rich controlling attitudes of prominent citizens. Bitzy loves everyone and is willing to forgive and love again, but she learns that some people are not worth forgiving. Beau's unexpected return sets into motion long buried emotions and memories and the family must deal with feelings they want to forget once more. Faced with the challenge of having Beau back, Bitzy and Stormie, their only daughter, must deal with him on a different level. Bitzy ends up with a house-full of other women's husbands who she wants to continue to love, but she's going to have to make some hard choices. There are big secrets in Leon Smith's heavy-handed world and when Phillipa Foreshaw, Wes's adopted mother who has a hippie dope-smoking devil-may-care attitude, lets Bitzy and Beau know the truth about Leon things go from bad to worse. Add Dot to the scene, Bitzy's lesbian sister, who is smack in the middle of all of Atlanta's gossipy circles, loves the intrigue of having Beau show up out of the blue. Dot knows her sister well and offers jaded advice on how to deal with the hapless men taking up space in her home and heart. And of course, there's Wesley, Bitzy's best-guy friend, and Opal Anne, one of her few friends from high school, dragging their problems through Bitzy's teapot like used up tea leaves. Wes comes face-to-face with Beau Smith, the one person he hoped he would never see again, and Wes's lack of sensitivities boil over in a display that defies his logical mind, and he makes a move that changes everyone's idea of who Wes is, including Bitzy. Can Bitzy revive the most talked about and hottest romance in Atlanta's small-town history? Does she want to?