In a genre saturated with morally ambiguous antiheroes, Pauline Sister Allison Regina Gliot shows how the Eucharist is the ultimate answer to human longing.
In a secular young-adult market saturated with supernatural romance and morally ambiguous antiheroes, a religious sister with the Daughters of St. Paul is turning traditional monster lore on its head.
Pauline Sister Allison Regina Gliot, author of the acclaimed In Aeternum urban fantasy trilogy, is drawing thousands of young readers into the Catholic faith by answering a deceptively simple question: What happens when a creature of darkness meets the Light of the World in the Eucharist?
Filling a Void in Young-Adult Fiction
Modern vampire fiction post-Twilight stripped away the Christian origins that once defined the genre. Classic legends relied on crucifixes, holy water and consecrated Hosts as supernatural defense, but contemporary stories largely omitted faith entirely.
Sister Allison set out to change that, writing for an audience of high-school and college-age readers starving to see their spiritual realities represented in mainstream fiction.
“So many mainstream young-adult novels don’t address faith or God at all,” Sister Allison told the Register.
“By telling a story with characters who are actively grappling with faith questions and pursuing
