12/22/2025
My next Novel coming soon. The Last Cup of Coffee at Starbucks is a heartfelt novel about resilience, human connection, and the quiet miracles found in everyday moments.
Carrie is a young girl who has always felt different. Living with a disability that causes her to write in different colors and count everything around her, she grew up isolated—without friends, without love, and often the target of cruelty she never understood. After her father is killed in the war, and her grief-stricken mother turns to alcohol, Carrie is forced to grow up too fast, becoming the caretaker instead of the child. Through it all, one simple dream keeps her going: to work at Starbucks and be part of a place where people come together.
On her very first day on the job, Carrie meets Edna, a 106-year-old Holocaust survivor with a sharp mind, a warm spirit, and an extraordinary story. Recently awakened from a 40-year coma and having lost her husband years before, Edna believes she still speaks to him from the other side. She makes one special request: to receive the very first cup of hot coffee made in a French press and to sit at the same table where she and her husband once sat as the first customers at the original Starbucks in 1987—reliving a memory that anchors her to love and life.
As days pass, Edna becomes the heart of the café. The six Starbucks employees—and countless customers—are drawn to her wisdom, humor, and unfiltered reflections on survival, loss, and gratitude. Through her stories of the Holocaust and life’s fragility, Edna teaches everyone around her not to take a single moment for granted and to embrace life exactly as it comes.
For Carrie, Edna becomes a guide and a source of strength. And when Carrie meets John, an ex-military soldier with a gentle soul, her past and present collide in an unexpected way: John is the very soldier her father once saved in the war—a sacrifice that ultimately cost her father his life.
As grief, healing, and destiny intertwine over cups of coffee and shared memories, Carrie begins to wonder if she is finally allowed something she never thought possible.
In a place built on warmth and connection, does Carrie finally find love?