Everything had been going according to plan for Dr. Zoe Hart. Beautiful, privileged and talented, she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon, just like her father. But when she's told she doesn't have the requisite bedside manner to get an important fellowship -- that she doesn't have the heart to be a heart surgeon -- Zoe's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she's going to have to take a job as a general practitioner. So, this lifelong New Yorker takes a chance on an offer by a mysterious admirer -- a southern country doctor -- packs her bags, slips on her stilettos and leaves Manhattan for life on the Gulf Coast. 

Welcome to HART OF DIXIE, set in the lovely town of BlueBell, Alabama, where the neighbors take care of one another, the mailman knows your name, there's a parade every Tuesday ... and no one has ever seen the likes of Dr. Zoe Hart. Zoe feels the culture shock of her new surroundings immediately but the real shock comes when she learns that the doctor who invited her to BlueBell has passed away and left her with his half of the medical practice.