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What happens when a Memphis couple, Leelee and Baker Satterfield, along with their two young daughters, get it into their heads to head to Vermont to buy a historic inn and restaurant? And what happens when running an inn in Vermont turns out to be not all itโ€™s cracked up to be? A staff that’s more (and often less) than helpful. Weather in winter that’s a lot less than ideal. And a marriage that โ€ฆ well, read Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press), the debut novel from native Memphian Lisa Patton, to see.