In the Beloved Jonathan Cooke

His mother’s death was a crucial turning point in Jonathan Cooke’s life, not only that it left him alone in the world with nowhere to go, but because it stripped him bare of the unshakable trust they’d forged together, when he realized that his mother was a liar. Jonathan discovered her legacy of lies in the throes of her illness, as she rambled on deliriously about a man he’d never heard mentioned before. He instinctively pressed his dying mother for answers, but the answers she gave were more devastating to him than the thought of her death. He had family he never knew about. The gut-wrenching truth was that her deathbed confession meant she had never planned to tell him that the life he thought he knew, was a lie, interwoven with deliberate deception and broken trust. The man on her mind in these last moments of her life, was his birth father who she implied knew her mother. Neither of these people knew her son existed. This new reality would send him on a blind quest to find, the only people he could call family, his birth father and his grandmother.In The Beloved Jonathan Cooke, is a family drama that explores the need we all have to love, and to be loved, unconditionally. Jonathan’s personal journey touches many other lives as truths unravel, and decades old secrets and scandals are revealed. But it is his spiritual journey that helps him discover and define what love is all about.