The Road to the Rainbow Bridge

By Philip Stengel

Book Overview

A quiet, powerful novel about love that outlives the body.
Buttercup has been the heartbeat of her home for years, steady, proud, and quietly brave. Now she is sixteen, her strength is slipping, and the humans she loves are searching for answers they cannot bear to find.

When the diagnosis comes, Buttercup makes the only choice she knows how to make: protect her family by keeping the routine intact, even as pain insists on being seen.

Then her mother, Mamma, appears with a truth that changes everything: the Rainbow Bridge is real. It is not a trap or a punishment. It is a crossing, a road made of light, opened when the body can no longer hold the love it carries.

The Road to the Rainbow Bridge is told with tenderness and precision from inside the cats' world, where loyalty has sharp edges, courage is quiet, and goodbye is not an ending, it is a transformation. Perfect for readers who believe animals are family, and who need a story that treats grief with honesty, gentleness, and hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NY95Y9
• ISBN13: 9798280587663
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"