LATER-IN-LIFE ROMANCE · THE REHOBOTH BEACH SERIES

Love has no age limit.

Novels about savvy women and second chances, set at the Delaware shore.

Cover of Wedding Plans, a Rehoboth Beach novel by Deborah Smith Cook: a man and a woman walk toward the beach between weathered dune fences.

NEW · THE SECOND REHOBOTH BEACH NOVEL

Wedding Plans

Forty years ago, Beth left Andy at the altar. Now their best friends are getting married, and the runaway bride and the man she left have a wedding to plan.


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“An exceptional addition to the romance genre.” Midwest Book Review

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#1 IN KINDLE STORE

Later in Life Romance
Launch week · October 2026

#1 IN KINDLE STORE

Romance Literary Fiction
Launch week · October 2026

#3 IN KINDLE STORE

Second Chances Romance
Launch week · October 2026

AWARD FINALIST

Finding Home
2025 Holt Medallion, Best First Novel

Weathered dune fence and beach grass along the shore.
  • Love Is for Any Age

    Divorced, widowed or never married, and sure that chapter had closed? Deborah writes for you.

  • Meet the Savvys

    Seven accomplished women, one book and wine club, and opinions about everything. Which one are you?

  • The Savvy Book Club

    Once a month on Zoom, readers gather for an hour to talk about the books the Savvys read.

MEET DEBORAH

Professor, strategist, novelist.

Deborah Smith Cook was a professor and a strategist before she was a novelist. Now she writes the books she always wanted to read: romance about accomplished women her own age, who find love when they’ve stopped expecting it.

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Coming up

  • Saturday, November 14, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

    Book signing at Browseabout Books, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

  • Saturday, November 21, noon to 3 p.m.

    Friends to Lovers, Alexandria, Virginia

  • Your book club, any month

    On Zoom anywhere, or in person around Washington, DC. Invite Deborah →

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