The Visionary Pageant

<p>Despite her father being a prominent captain of industry in her hometown of Providence Sophronia Tempest struggles to be taken seriously in her chosen career as a journalist. It is when she and her boyfriend the eminently suitable Arthur Botwink attend a meeting of a supposed sect the Starry Sodality and hear an address by Isadora Blank self-declared 'Hierophant and Opener of the Way' that things start to spiral out of control.</p><p><br></p><p>Before she knows it Sophronia Arthur and the irascible Reuben Standeven - a fellow journalist who keeps getting the assignments she deserves - are caught up in far-reaching events beyond their imagining. Following their instincts they find themselves in another world and are party to a fiendish scheme that seems set to come to a head on the day of the big parade to celebrate 250 years since the founding of Providence. Unless that is they can stop it.</p><p><br></p><p>But how is Sophronia's mentor the celebrated academic Professor Aurion Charnley involved?</p><p><br></p><p>And where do all the cats keep disappearing to?</p>