title: The Crossroads Cafe
author: Smith, Deborah
description: 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.
  Beauty is in the lie of the beholder.
  
  Heartbroken and cynical, famed actress Cathryn Deen hides from the world after a horrific accident scars her for life.
  
  Secluded in her grandmother's North Carolina mountain home, Cathryn at first resists the friendship of the local community and the famous biscuits served up by her loyal cousin, Delta, at The Crossroads Cafe, until a neighbor, former New York architect Thomas Mitternich, reaches out to her.
  
  Thomas lost his wife and son in the World Trade Center. In the years since he's struggled with alcohol and despair. He thinks nothing and no one can make his life worth living again.
  
  Until he meets Cathryn.