The five-year-old girl has a gift that she doesn’t quite understand.

Others, including her parents, don’t understand that she is different and she learns to conceal it—from the physical world.

She withdraws into an inner, spiritual world where her constant companions are Peter and a nameless black dog. At the age of seven, she has a life-changing meeting with a faith healer who teaches her that her gift is one that is very special indeed.

As she grows older and begins to embrace her gift, she has a terrifying encounter with spirits from a darker realm. From this encounter, she learns that for good to exist, there must also be evil and for light to exist, there must be darkness.

As she embarks on a quest to explore her own spirituality, her heart, mind, and soul are opened to the infinite wisdom of benevolent people and spirits who guide her toward a greater understanding of herself and the world around her.

Peter and the Black Dog is an uplifting story that not only explores the wonders of faith, hope, and spirituality, but gives a profound and social commentary on accepting the differences of others.



About the Author

Louie Jerome has been a writer since the age of seven, when she wrote, published and sold (for sweets!) her comic books to friends.  She has traveled extensively through England, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaya, Macao, Bulgaria and Greece and graduated from Carlisle College in England.  She is currently writing her second book and lives in the City of Carlisle, in Cumbria, England.