The Yarn Spinner: A Crossroads Cafe Short Story

By Deborah Smith

A Crossroads Cafe Short Story 47 pages long

She's destined to love Gus MacBride--if she survives her first year in the Crossroads Cove.

A thread of hope is all she needs.

Damaged, confused, alone. Cathy Deen Mitternich recognizes her old self in the fragile survivor huddled in the sheep barn's storage room at Rainbow Goddess Farm. Former art teacher Lucy Parmenter may be beyond even the tough-love magic of the farm, a live-in counseling center for abused women. Afraid to set a foot outside, drugged on medication, and filled with despair, Lucy needs the big biscuit magic of the Crossroad Cafe's Delta Whittlespoon. Together, Cathy and Delta search for a lifeline that represents Lucy's best hope of holding on.

Their search ends in Lucy's new home at the barn. When Lucy discovers the magic there, neither she nor Cathy will ever be the same.



Deborah Smith is the author of The Crossroads Café, chosen as a Top Five Romance of 2006 by Library Journal, a Number One bestseller at Kindle, and a bestseller at the Wall Street Journal. Her bestselling Crossroad Café Novellas include The Biscuit Witch and The Pickle Queen. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of A Place To Call Home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BelleBooks
• Release date: Jan 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781611944303

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Praise for Award-Winning Author Deborah Smith

As enchanting as Tallulah’s biscuits . . . This novella truly captured the essence of what [coming home] means to the heart.

—Teresa Medeiros, NY Times Bestselling Author

An extraordinarily talented author.

—Mary Alice Monroe, NY Times Bestselling Author

A storyteller of distinction.

—Book Page

An exceptional storyteller.

—Booklist

Deborah Smith just keeps getting better.

—Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Crossroads Café

Unforgettably poignant.

—Booklist

A top five romance of 2006.

—Library Journal, starred review

A perfect 10.

—Romance Reviews Today

The best romance of 2006.

—The Romance Reader

A true treasure.

—Romantic Times BookClub

A book that readers will open again and again.

—Romance Designs

Winner of a HOLT Medallion and a Reviewer’s International Award (RIO)

Other Novels by Deborah Smith

The Crossroads Café Series

The Crossroads Café (novel)

The Biscuit Witch (long novella)

The Pickle Queen (long novella)

The Yarn Spinner (short story)

The Kitchen Charmer (coming 2014)

The Mermaid Series

Alice at Heart

Diary of a Radical Mermaid

Single Title Releases

A Gentle Rain

Sweet Hush

On Bear Mountain

The Stone Flower Garden

Charming Grace

A Place to Call Home

Blue Willow

Silk and Stone

Miracle

When Venus Fell

Anthologies

The Mossy Creek Series (contributor)

The Sweet Tea Series (contributor)

The Yarn Spinner

A Crossroads Café Short Story

by

Deborah Smith

Bell Bridge Books

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook ISBN: 978-1-61194-430-3

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Copyright © 2014 by Deborah Smith

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Cover design: Debra Dixon

Interior design: Hank Smith

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Reviews for The Yarn Spinner

[Nancy · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is such a wonderful book about the gift of hope that someone who has been severely damaged by the acts of another might begin to feel safe and begin the healing process with the help of other's unconditional love.