Second Helpings at the Serve You Right Cafe

Second Helpings at the Serve You Right Café by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs

219 Pages

Publisher: Linden Tree Press, AuthorBuzz

Release Date: April 4, 2015

Fiction, Romance, Women’s Fiction

Eden Rose is the owner of the Serve You Right Café. She serves up bakery specialties along with coffee. She is a recovering alcoholic and deals with her sobriety every day. Her cook/baker, Emet First, is a reformed convict. He was in prison for manslaughter but has been out of jail for ten years and is happy with where his life is heading.

Dr. Mercedes “Mercey” Finch helps patients with physical therapy. Emet asks her out for date, and they have a good time. On her doorstep, he tells her about his past. He believes its best to be upfront with her. Mercedes has unemployed pothead brother, Clay, and is planning on moving out of their family home. Clay doesn’t want her to leave because he cannot afford to live on his own. He overheard the conversation between Mercey and Emet and now he is vengeful. He even takes his anger out on a dog.

The book has a steady pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. Everyone in the story is broken. It is important to see who is do better in life or destroy someone else. This is a story of good versus evil and has you rooting for the Emet. I would consider this as a light romantic story like a Hallmark movie.