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Jerome and the Seraph

By Robina Williams

While visiting the grave of Father Aloysius, Brother Jerome finds himself quickly befallen to Book Cover his own tragic death and facing the afterworld, a place far from what he had expected. He soon discovered it was a place of loneliness with no one to talk to but himself until an old friend shows up. A feline, a cat he'd called Leo in his earthly form.

Yet Leo was no ordinary cat as Brother Jerome soon learns. The cat could talk and he wanted Brother Jerome to know his real name. Quantum or as he preferred to be called, Quant. Yet not only could the cat called Quant talk, he could travel back and forth through time and as Brother Jerome discovered, Quant was not dead.

When Quant begins to show Brother Jerome how to travel back and forth from the afterworld to present earth, the friar finds himself intrigued with traveling until things don't go well and he finds himself stuck in several awkward and embarrassing positions. Soon however Brother Jerome begins to find his knack for traveling and is surprised to learn that two of his other brothers are able to see him.

Then Brother Jerome begins to take trips to places he hadn't planned on going and finding his way to the other brothers who have long since passed on in the afterworld, causing Quant to become concerned. Through this new profound knowledge he also learns the afterworld is more than what is really seems and he must test his faith in god and all that he knows of his previous life.

The death of a friar, a talking cat, an afterworld far from what one might imagine it to be like, Author Robina Williams brings them all together in a fantasy readers will surely find to be as open-minded as the characters of Jerome and the Seraph.