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 Crossroads
Cafe
September 15, 2006
Trade Paperback
BelleBooks
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.
Read Excerpts
The Crossroads Caféis a finalist in the Write Touch
Readers' Awards sponsored by the Wisconsin RWA Chapter.
The Crossroads Café is
now a finalist in three regional Romance Writers of America
contests. Romance Writers, Ink of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has nominated
the book in their "More Than Magic" awards.
The Crossroads Café
is a finalist in the HOLT Medallion awards sponsored by the
Richmond, Virginia chapter of Romance Writers of America.
Ta dah! Library Journal
has announced that
The Crossroads Café
has been chosen as one of its Five Best Romances of 2006. The
full list will be in the January 2007 issue.
Audio Excerpt!Here's the man who won Cathryn
Deen's heart.
Quotes & Reviews
"This masterful, heartfelt tale is another masterpiece for Ms. Smith to add
to her growing body of work. I've been a huge fan for a long time and
highly recommend this and all the author's previous novels." — Roberta Austin,
RomanceJunkies.com
"A truly fabulous read. Great characters, great story, lots of
emotional angst to rip your heart out--brava! Final Grade: A." —Wendy, aka "Super Librarian" blogger and acquisitions librarian,
California
"I've thought that Deborah Smith's recent Southern women's fiction novels
just get better and better, and The Crossroads Café confirms that. This is a terrific book. Highly recommended."
— Mary Jo Putney
New York Times Bestselling Author
"Deborah Smith creates stories that touch your hearts. She has done this
with each and every one of the books she has fashioned in her career as an
author. Her latest, The Crossroads Café,
is her most touching yet." — Jackie K. Cooper, "Fridays with Jackie," Georgia
Public Radio
"Brava, Deborah Smith! The Crossroads Café
is magnificent! It's stunning in its insight into the human heart and
soul. You'll find yourself laughing and weeping, then laughing and weeping
again and again. Ms. Smith's writing and voice are simply superb and make
reading The Crossroads Café a sheer pleasure."
— Debora Hosey, The Romance Readers Connection
"Somehow I've missed reading [Deborah Smith's] previous novels.
Oh, not because I've not heard of them or how good they are. In fact,
several of them are long time favorite reads of people whose literary opinion I
trust. I guess I've just been stupid. Or as we say in the South, an
idjit. The Crossroads Café truly
shows me what I've been missing." — DearReader.com
"Deborah Smith not only touches your heart, she and her stories touch your
very soul. She writes of the best Southern Fiction I've ever read. I
laughed and I cried and then laughed and cried some more. [The Crossroads Café]
is one book that I believe is a must read." — Kathy Boswell, The Best Reviews
"I recently received
an advance reading copy of your book, The Crossroads Café, and
I just wanted you how absolutely, positively wonderful it is! I get goose
bumps just thinking about it!
“The first chance I had to read it was
last week, while spending several days in various hospital emergency &
in-patient rooms getting care for my father's broken right ankle, sprained left
one, & his subsequent heart arrhythmias due to his late-at-night fall. Your
book truly made a difficult time pass more easily. I laughed, I cried, I got
those darn goose bumps! It was hard to wrench myself away from it in order to
deal with the doctors, etc.
“As soon as I finished it, I passed it
along to my sister, Coleen, who was with me the whole time. She couldn't put it
down either. (In fact, my brother-in-law said he'd blame me if they ever got
divorced because she kept going on about Thomas' love for Cathy, and did he love
her like that?! )
“I just placed an order with Ingram for a
supply of The Crossroads Café and look forward to selling this
'Dark Star' to all my customers.
"Again, thank you for writing such a
wonderful jewel & thanks for sending this gem along to me.” —
Darlene Krogol, ANOTHER LOOK BOOKS, Taylor, Michigan
"This beautifully written, emotionally complex story will appeal
to fans of both romance and women's fiction." — Library
Journal, Starred Review
"I wanted to let you know I finished
Crossroads Café a few days ago, and I absolutely
LOVED it! It was 'real,' emotional, funny, and moving as
all your books are, and Crossroads is now
right up there with my absolute favorites of yours. I fell
in love with the characters as well as the town, and what a
wonderful way to talk about our obsession with beauty. I
will definitely be recommending Crossroads
Café to my customers
at the bookstore, and I thank you again for the ARC that is
now permanently on my keeper shelf!" — Karen Witkowski,
Waldenbooks #1269
"There is a haunting and beautiful rhythm to Smith's
storytelling that paints beautiful pictures and
characters. Her evocative stories wrap themselves
around you emotionally, delivering joy and sorrow. Told
from the perspective of both hero and heroine, this
novel charts their damaged emotional states and rings
amazingly true. Truly a great treasure, Smith's wisdom
and emotional resonance are astounding." —
Jill M. Smith, Romantic Times BOOKreviews, Top Pick
I
absolutely loved this book. These characters
were wonderful! My favorites have been
A
Place To Call Home, Sweet Hush,
and now, Crossroads
Café. You
have a true heart for people's emotions. I can't
wait to recommend this book off our shelves here
at the library." — Kathy
Bolton, Librarian, Worthington
Libraries, Ohio
"I just finished reading the advanced
reading copy of The Crossroads Café. Thomas, Cathryn,
Delta, Macy, Alberta, the "kids"--Ivy, Cora, and
Bangor...they are so real. And their
problems reflect so much of our lives.
Yes, Deborah, there is still an audience for
'women's fiction. BRAVO!" — LaVerne Swanson, Circulation Manager, Old Worthington
Library, Ohio
"Loved it. One of those books that I didn't want to
end, so I kept putting it down, and had to pick it up
again to see how it would end. This will be a very easy
book for me to sell." — Cathy Schultz Manager,
Waldenbooks, Alpena, Michigan
"I loved it. I have already pre-sold one copy of
The Crossroads Café and I'm ordering more because I KNOW I can sell them. — Dede
Baker, A Novel Idea Bookshop, Casselberry, Florida
"Two damaged people find love and redemption in bestseller
Smith's latest." — Publishers Weekly
Beautifully
written, intensely emotional and sometimes wryly humorous .
. . this book will touch your heart and you’ll wish
you could return to Crossroads time and
again." — Fresh Fiction.com
"Smith has once again created an unforgettably poignant
story in the best tradition of contemporary Southern
romantic women's fiction." — BOOKLIST
"The
story is full of loving detail that readers will want to
experience on their own and savor for a while. I can highly
recommend The Crossroads Café, yet another winner
by Deborah Smith. So complete, I rate it as a Perfect 10."
— Lisa Baca, Romance Reviews Today
"The Crossroads Café [is] is the best
romance of 2006. The novel grabs your attention from
the opening chapter to the last satisfying sentence.
Once you’ve finished, you’ll want to start reading it all
over again." FIVE STARS — Susan Scribner, The
Romance Reader
"Deborah Smith's Crossroads Café is the
incredibly poignant story of two lost souls—one lost
everything important to him when the North Tower of the
World Trade Center was attacked on September 11th and is
quietly drinking himself to death in a backwoods valley
nestled in the North Carolina Smokies, while the other has
lost her identity and status as the world's most beautiful
woman due to a horrific car accident, and comes back to her
grandmother's farm in that same valley to hide out.
Together, they find not only acceptance of their changed
circumstances but mutual understanding and a deeper, more
abiding love than either has experienced before. Smith
writes Southern romance with compassion, humor, and finesse.
She takes us inside a closed society, and the minds of her
characters, with such skill that we forget they are not
real, and we suffer and rejoice right along with them."
— Lynne Welch,
Herrick Memorial Library, Wellington, Ohio, for NoveList
"The author has woven a marvelous tapestry of life and
love on so many levels that it is rich with colour.
While reading this book I could clearly see everything
the author wanted me to and more. The Crossroads
Café is an absolutely fantastic book. It is a
poignant tale of the fragility of human emotion and what
we do to ourselves and others, in the name of beauty,
guilt and love. The characters are all well rounded and
well written, they are believable and fallible, and each
added to the depth of the storyline.
"I haven't been this enthusiastic about a book in a
long time. I normally read romantic suspense, which this
book is not, and it is hard to wow me. I have been
wowed. The Crossroads Café belongs on
your keeper shelf folks as it is a story you will want
to enjoy again and again. I have a sneaky suspicion
someone may want to make a movie out of this novel. Part
of me would be thrilled to see this story come to life
but the other part of me knows it could never, ever,
match the pictures in my head already created by the
author. As the book's blurb says 'Live. Love. Believe.'
And I do."
5 Kisses —
Michelle Puffer, Romance Divas
"A must read."
— Lucele Coutts, NovelTalk.com
"Readers are in for a real treat, and it doesn't just include the wonderful
cooking, but also the great heartrending story of two scarred people who find
their soul mate in the most unlikely place. The Crossroads Café
is a book that readers will open again and again." — Romance Designs
"The author has woven a marvelous tapestry of life and love on so many levels
that it is rich with colour. While reading this book I could clearly see
everything the author wanted me to and more. The Crossroads Café
is an absolutely fantastic book. It is a poignant tale of the fragility of
human emotion and what we do to ourselves and others, in the name of beauty,
guilt and love. The characters are all well rounded and well written, they
are believable and fallible, and each added to the depth of the storyline.
I haven't been this enthusiastic about a book in a long time. I
normally read romantic suspense, which this book is not, and it is hard to wow
me. I have been wowed. The Crossroads Café
belongs on your keeper shelf, folks, as it is a story you will want to enjoy
again and again. I have a sneaky suspicion someone may want to make a
movie out of this novel. Part of me would be thrilled to see this story
come to life, but the other part of me knows it could never, ever, match the
pictures in my head already created by the author. As the book's blurb
says, "Live. Love. Believe." And I do." — Michelle Puffer,
Romance Divas
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