The author was a well-known composer. One day, as she sat at her desk composing a score, she began to hear words instead of music. The Book of Jonathon was the first of seven books Atem received. Each offers first person accounts of souls recently arrived in the afterlife. Atem's philosophy and poems uplift the heart and enlighten the spirit. She is the author of internationally bestselling Confucius: A Smile from Eternity as well as The Book of Eternity and Kites in the Sky.