Janet Logan Silver Butterfly

Silver Butterfly

Janet Logan

Five Star, Aug 2006, $26.95

ISBN: 1594144915

In junior high school in Brooklyn, Steve and Serena are sweethearts until his family moves to South Jersey. Though they vowed otherwise, the fourteen year olds lost contact.

Steve opens up a five star restaurant with his wife Anne Marie and their two children. However, Anne Marie ultimately suffers from Alzheimer's before she succumbs to pneumonia.

Serena marries Burt Epstein, but when their son dies in a DUI, he blames her; she divorces him and opens up a restaurant in Brooklyn eventually marrying her kindhearted widowed lawyer, Edward Franklin, whose angry daughter Phyllis wants her dead. When Edward dies she closes her restaurant and moves away o avoid the ire of Phyllis.

Years have passed when Steve hires Serena to work at his restaurant; neither recognize the other as their last names have changed, but are attracted to one another. However, his daughter Lisa objects and the restaurant's hostess Juliette interferes. Serena decides not to break up another family so she vanishes even as Steve knows who she is, his soulmate.

Though Serena does not do well with the other women in the lives of her beaus (overkill), fans will enjoy this middle age second chance at love. The story line contains two subplots that follow the overall lives of Steve and Serena respectively until they meet for the second time. Readers will root for this deserving widowed couple, who have had a kind loving mate each, to complete the circle of happiness together.

Harriet Klausner