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Carpe Diem Café
Series · 1 book · 2025

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Just Like Starting Over

2025

Have you ever wanted something that isn’t good for you? I do, right now, and it’s tearing me apart. Sixteen years ago, all my dreams were coming true, then everything fell apart. 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 tired all the time. 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 I take the chance to move back to my hometown of Empire to help Merrie launch her dream, The Carpe Diem Café. I’m sick of avoiding the past and I miss my grandmother. Why should Mike be allowed to take that away from me and from Sierra? Why have I let him? I sure 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. The thing is he’s not the same guy I knew. He’s older and tougher, more direct and a whole lot hotter. He has the money to make all of Sierra’s dreams come true and I can’t compete with that – even though I’m terrified to lose her. It doesn't help that Sierra likes him enough to have launched a Parent Trap matchmaking scheme of her own. Do I dare to trust his promises this time around? Can I let myself fall in love again with the man who has always been my one and only? Or will that just leave me with a shattered heart one more time?

Author

Deborah Cooke
Deborah Cooke
Author · 54 books

Deborah Cooke also writes under the names Claire Delacroix and Claire Cross. Bestselling and award-winning author Deborah Cooke has published over fifty novels and novellas, including historical romances, fantasy romances, fantasy novels with romantic elements, paranormal romances, contemporary romances, urban fantasy romances, time travel romances and paranormal young adult novels. She writes as herself, Deborah Cooke, as Claire Delacroix, and has written as Claire Cross. She is nationally bestselling, #1 Kindle Bestselling, KOBO Bestselling, as well as a USA Today and New York Times’ Bestselling Author. Her Claire Delacroix medieval romance, The Beauty, was her first book to land on the New York Times List of Bestselling Books. 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 a member of Romance Writers of America and of Novelists Inc. Currently, she’s writing paranormal romances as Deborah Cooke, and medieval romances as Claire Delacroix. Deborah thinks a lot about publishing and writing, and also knits too much.

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