Black Coffee

Death brings families together. Sometimes. When three middle-aged siblings return to Chicago to visit their dying mother strange chemistries are mingled and distilled. And the potion is not very pleasant. Will their mother -- an expert on butterflies and moths and collector of rare nature art -- be able to smooth the rift? Or is there a deeper divide at work one that stretches back through time to their earliest Celtic forebears?<p> This is a hard-nosed love story intricately woven with drama beauty surprise and imagination. It deals complexly with betrayal with dysfunction and schizophrenia and with the hidden power of love.