Café Romantique (Larissa's Angelic Adventures #1)

All Marguerite de Luzenac wanted was permission to place ten café tables on her own land — and for that, the mayor of Carcassonne decided to stop her.

In the sun‑warmed south of France, Marguerite de Luzenac has rebuilt her life around bread, patience, and routine.
After the death of her husband, she leaves Paris for Carcassonne and buys a small nineteenth‑century bakery on the edge of the old city. Café Romantique is modest but steady — until a dream, a memory, and a quiet pull from the land itself suggest it could become something more.
All Marguerite wants is permission to open an outdoor café on her own property.
What she encounters instead is obstruction at every turn. Permits vanish. Applications are delayed. Council meetings are postponed. And behind it all stands the mayor of Carcassonne — a woman with a hidden agenda and a long‑held claim to the land beneath Marguerite’s feet.
As pressure mounts, Marguerite begins to dream vividly of the
of women bakers and land stewards,
of Mary Magdalene’s lineage in the Languedoc,
and of the Albigensian Crusades that erased women’s ownership, voices, and lives.
Unbeknownst to her, Larissa — an angel in training — has been assigned to this place, bound by strict rules of non‑interference. She can only guide through memory, timing, and intuition, as Marguerite faces a retreat quietly, or confront history, corruption, and power head‑on.
With the help of an investigative journalist, buried records begin to surface — and so does the truth.
Café Romantique is a richly layered story of land, justice, and persistence, where baking is an act of devotion, memory is a form of resistance, and the divine feminine quietly reclaims ground once lost.
Some cafés serve coffee.
Some serve cake.

Café Romantique serves reckonings.

Café Romantique is the first book in Larissa’s Angelic Adventures, a cozy fantasy series where each story follows a new human challenge guided — subtly and compassionately — by the angelic realms. While each book stands alone, together they reveal a larger pattern of healing, memory, and purpose unfolding across time and place.