When 16-year-old Katrina leaves coffee and pastries for the homeless guy sleeping behind her grandmother's coffeehouse, she has no idea he's actually an angel named Malcolm, who will change her life by giving her coffee beans that will bring her what she most desires. Katrina is skeptical, even after her best friend, Vincent, drinks coffee from the first bean and gains fortune, and the second bean is eaten by the coffeehouse cat, Ratcatcher, who becomes famous for killing a huge wharf rat. Instead, she is too busy worrying about aggressive attempts by neighboring coffee shop Java Heaven to drive them out of business. When Vincent starts dating Heidi, daughter of the owner of Java Heaven, the friends have a falling out. Bits of Scandinavian culture lace Selfors's (Saving Juliet) smalltown America setting, and she ties up the loose ends nicely. Though this airy story is slow to start, the conclusion will satisfy.

I have to admit the cover of Coffeehouse Angel is what first pulled me in and made me want to read the book. However, I was not unsatisfied by the story one bit. Katrina is your typical teenage girl who isn't sure she doesn't want more from life. She feels lost and as if she has no real goals or direction in what she wants to do. While she has two best friends, Vincent and Elizabeth, she doesn't know when she stopped making more. One morning she finds a young man sleeping in her alley. At first she believes he is homeless and leaves coffee and pastries for him. This one act of kindness, will forever change her life. Is it the type of change she wants and is she ready to find out who she really can become.