Just Like Starting Over: Alternate Cover (The Carpe Diem Café - Alternate Covers) - Softcover

Cooke, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1990879829 ISBN 13: 9781990879821

Publisher: Hazel & Honeysuckle Press, 2025

Synopsis

Once burned, twice shy. That’s how it’s supposed to work. I thought I’d learned my lesson after falling for Mike Cavendish in high school. Sixteen years ago, all my dreams were coming true, then everything went wrong in one disastrous night. It’s so much more than a broken heart and a loss of trust. It’s raising a daughter alone, abandoning your old life to make a new one, and being defined by your roles rather than your dreams. The only bright light is Sierra herself, a wise child who has taught me so much in her fifteen years. She is everything to me.

It’s because of Sierra that we've come back to my hometown of Empire to help my bestie Merrie launch her dream, The Carpe Diem Café. I’m sick of avoiding the past and I miss my grandmother. Why have I let Mike take that away from me and from Sierra? I’m sure I’m over him by now. I don’t expect him to turn up, looking better than ever - much less acting as if he still cares, pretending he doesn’t know that Sierra is his, wanting to start all over again.

It’s a proposition that I know I should refuse, but…it’s Mike. And he’s not the same guy I knew. Oh, he’s still quiet and thoughtful, but tougher, more direct – and a whole lot hotter. He can make all of Sierra’s dreams come true without even trying and when he decides to make me believe in forever again, I don’t think I can resist just one night. Can I trust Mike’s promises again? More importantly, can I take a chance and let myself fall head over heels again with the man who has always been my one and only?

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About the Author

Bestselling and award-winning author Deborah Cooke has published over seventy novels and novellas. Her first book, Romance of the Rose was published in 1993 under the pseudonym Claire Delacroix. She is USA Today and nationally bestselling, and her medieval romance, The Beauty, was her first book to land on the New York Times List of Bestselling Books. Claire Delacroix is a pseudonym used by Deborah Cooke for her historical and fantasy romances. Deborah also publishes contemporary and paranormal romances as Deborah Cooke and has written as Claire Cross.Deborah was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto Public Library in 2009, the first time TPL hosted a residency focused on the romance genre, and she was honored to receive the Romance Writers of America PRO Mentor of the Year Award in 2012. She's also on the RWA Honor Roll. She lives in Canada with her family and is an avid knitter.Visit her websites at DeborahCooke.com and Delacroix.net to learn more about her books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hazel & Honeysuckle Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1990879829
• ISBN 13: 9781990879821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422