It’s 1989. Life's easy for DEBORAH she's up-market, drives her own flash car to school, and looks pretty good too. She's never had a job, either; but now her parents have split up, and she needs the money.JOE GARBARINI is cool. He likes motorbikes, girls, and fun. He doesn't have time for much—he's running Heartbreak Café when he's not at school.The Heartbreak Café is a noisy hangout on the north Californian coast. Joe's worked there for years, and knows what it takes. He's sure Debbie won't last a month—but Debbie's determined to put up with his wisecracks and prove him wrong.Debbie, Joe and the rest of the gang are all at the Heartbreak Café. Meet them in this sparkling series from bestselling author Janet Quin-Harkin.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Originally Published in 1989.

A Hollywood director decides to shoot a film at the Heartbreak Cafe, and, when he makes the manager, Joe, a motorcycle stuntman, Joe turns from an okay guy into an egomaniac

When Heartbreak Cafe manager Joe gives his beautiful and bossy girlfriend a job, Debbie puts her crush on Joe on hold and tries to figure out a way to handle her manager's unmanageable girlfriend

Art saves Rosarita from drowning and the two soon find themselves madly in love, but like the ill-fated lovers in "West Side Story," they face the prejudices of his friends and the strictures of her family

Debbie thinks the strange young woman hanging around the cafe is just another weird customer until she discovers that she is in fact a runaway who is using the restaurant as a shelter

The delicate harmony of Heartbreak Cafe is upset when the gang learns that the popular hangout may be torn down to accommodate a new resort, and Debbie starts seeing her old boyfriend Grant, leaving Joe in the dust