The Crossroads Cafe
Belle Books
Contemporary Romance
September 15, 2006
ISBN-13: 0976876051
Available in: Trade Size
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The Crossroads Cafe
by Deborah Smith
A beautiful woman, scarred for life.
A tortured man, seeking redemption.
Brought together by fate in a small town high in the majestic Appalachian mountains
Live. Love. Believe.
Beauty is in the lie of the beholder.
Heartbroken and cynical, famed actress Catherine Deen hides from the world after a horrific accident scars her for life.
Secluded in her grandmother's North Carolina mountain home, Cathryn at first resists the friendship of the local community and the famous biscuits served up by her loyal cousin, Delta, at The Crossroads Café, until a neighbor, former New York architect Thomas Mitternich, reaches out to her.
Thomas lost his wife and son in the World Trade Center. In the years since he's struggled with alcohol and despair. He thinks nothing and no can make his life worth living again.
Until he meets Cathryn.
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Deborah Smith's Bio
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, Sweet Hush, and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.
With more than 30 romance and women's fiction novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend Literary Award. In 2003 Disney optioned Sweet Hush for film.
Deborah is a founding partner of BelleBooks, a small southern press known for feel-good southern fiction including the Mossy Creek Hometown Series and the Sweet Tea story collections.
Deborah lives on a secluded dirt road high in the mountains of north Georgia with Hank, her husband of 27 years, plus a herd of deer, a flock of turkeys, numerous well-fed raccoons, possums and the occasional bear, also eight cats, a dog and two enormous koi fish named Daisy and Albert.