The Cafe Lounge
by LaToya LawrencePublish: Sep 22, 2024Crime Fiction Thriller Suspense Mystery Romantic Suspense Women's Fiction Literary Fiction African American Interest Teen & Young Adult Book Overview
Join Rowan Hayes in his venture to France to start new after he loses the love of his life.
Finding it hard to get over Aurora his sister, Nola Hayes, recommends for him to spend time off from his job to take a vacation to France—where she lives and is the manager of her own cafe. A cafe that just further serves as a reminder of Aurora as she once worked at the Bakery Boutique Irresistible Bites Bakehouse and Cafe back in Long Island, the first place they had ever met before dating and coming close to marriage.
On Rowan’s vacation from Roslyn, New York—which Nola hopes will become her brother’s permanent location to settle down and make a home there—he finds himself the spectator in the swindle and entanglements that inhabits the cafe when he starts to work at the cozy, inviting place.
Amid three crooks, a reformed hustler looking for love and to live an honest life, and a nice young lady the victim of mistaken identity and circumstance—who regularly visit the shop— a heap of unexpected mix-ups, mishaps, and mischief unravel in front of the eyes of Rowan and Nola where they inevitably get involved to help solve a crime and save the day from a trio of villains wanted by the police for a chain of ongoing heists throughout the cities of France.