Riley Bloom is a 12 year old girl. She has a yellow lab named Buttercup. One moment she and her family are cruising down the highway. The next moment she is no longer on the highway or even in Eugene, Oregon, but in a beautiful shimmering field. Her parents are going one way, her sister another and there is a beautiful bridge waiting to be crossed. The bridge is the entrance to the afterlife - "Here and Now". Who should she follow? Before she can decide, her sister has disappeared back to earth. Riley, her parents and Buttercup are dead. They have passed over. Now, all Riley need to do is cross the bridge. Riley finds Here is not so different from where she lived in Oregon - an exact replica of her old neighbor - house and all. Her parents inform her she is to attend school where she will make new friends, learn new things; pick up where she left off on earth. Although she is doubtful this will happen she just smiles. After a light breakfast (yes you still eat in Here) she starts out to find the school - not really knowing where to go or what to expect. On her way she passes the "Viewing Room". She has been told not to go in, but being Riley she doesn't listen. She steps in side and sees her sister back on earth - alive but just going through the motion of appearing normal, but Riley knows her sister too well - this is just a front, she really isn't handling things too well. Riley soon learns that the afterlife isn't an eternity of leisure. She has responsibilities. She is summoned by the Council. After seeing highlights of her life on earth, she comes to the conclusion that she had been a brat - bugging her sister, spying on her and anyone else she came across. The Council assigns her a job - Soul Catcher. She thinks - what in the world is a Soul Catcher. Before she can ask the question, the Council has disappeared. She learns her teacher is 14 year old named Bodhi - a nerdy guy dressed in the clothing worn in the fifties. They return to earth for Riley's first assignment. She is to find the Radiant Boy and get him to cross over the bridge. He has been haunting an English castle for centuries. All other have failed and Bodhi is confident Riley will also. She is too cocky, disrespectful and must stop calling him the Nerdy Guy. What transpires when Riley comes face-to-face with the Radiant Boy - not one but three- they are triples working in shifts - makes for a very interesting story and teaches Riley what it really means to live in the Here and Now. Bodhi's encounter with the Radiant Boys' grieving mother earns both he and Riley their "glow". An interesting, delightful work of fiction, but possibly not too far off from the truth of what we may expect to find in the afterlife - the Here and Now- where every moment in time is now. Highly recommended!