Suffice to say, things are not going so well in the green house on Pacific Street. Eric is sleeping with his boss, running a drug racket out of his company car, and getting further in debt to one of San Francisco's most eccentric crime syndicates. His ex-fiancee, Emily, can't get a job, can't get a date, and every tarot reading she gives for a client is sunk by the appearance of The Death Card. Meanwhile, the third member of the household, Jacobins, seems to be having a minimalist nervous breakdown, but he can't be sure. All he really wants, on a cold winter night during a San Francisco summer, is a really good cup of coffee - and when he meets Inga Leonard, the beautiful overnight barista at A Beautiful Cup, his life will never quite be the same. (And neither will hers.) Everything you want in a novel - love, sex, crime, fledgling mobsters, tarot readings, dancing, mayhem, fog, beautiful cups of coffee and beautiful people who serve them.