A Peaceable Kingdom

“First things first. My name is André. I am a cat, and this is not a children’s story.” Not for children, but for readers with a love of fiction, humor and a taste for provocative, contemporary spirituality. Take André, an imperious cat; add in young Toby Wellington, a cold-hearted, once-in-a-century prodigy; and Orlando Floyd, Toby’s art teacher, in love with the boy’s beautiful mother. Add to that one act of murder, a trial, a verdict, the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Toby’s own masterpiece, an otherworldly drawing with never-before-seen power. Finally, add Akbar, an emissary of the League of Initiates, and you’ve got the makings of A PEACEABLE KINGDOM, where, as Akbar explains: “Every act may be seen as an act of love… or then again, maybe not.”