This morning, I moved the publication date for Just Like Starting Over to August 21, a month later than originally planned. The book is coming together really well and is nearly completed, but I now have a Kickstarter campaign running for much of July and want to make sure I have the time to get the book just right.
If you pre-ordered Mike and Sylvia’s book at the retail portals, you’ll likely get a message about the new publication date.
The Kickstarter, btw, is for new editions of my Champions of St. Euphemia series of medieval romances, and you can follow it right here.
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 again?
Coming in August 2025
Pre-order available at some portals:
Just Like Starting Over will also be available with an alternate illustrated cover.
Both covers will be available in trade paperback editions, as well.
Deborah Cooke: Author 