CATE M. RUANE spent years working as a copywriter and art director at advertising agencies in New York City and San Francisco. Born and raised on Long Island, she now lives in Asheville, N.C. She is the author of Telegram For Mrs. Mooney.
In her spare time, the author likes to travel, paint, and read historical fiction.
Jaya has arrived in India, fulfilling a promise to scatter her mother’s ashes on the Ganges River. She meets a street urchin who carries a beat up copy of Grimm’s and who writes fairy tales herself. The Uncertainty of Memory is a heartfelt story about the transcendent power of hope, friendship, and maternal love.
It’s 1943, and Tommy Mooney is stuck at Warfield Hall with his English guardians, Lord and Lady Sopwith. A winter storm is coming, and so are some of the world’s most brilliant physicists, along with a high-ranking American general. Tommy knows this is no ordinary house party, not when some of the guests are from enemy countries.
Tommy Mooney—a hero after his adventures in Nazi-occupied Europe and wartime Britain—is back at Warfield Hall in England when he gets a call from his friend Daphne. “We’ve a letter from Paris,” she says. “A very odd sort of letter.” The letter, written in invisible ink, is from their Parisian friend, begging them to help find her sister Sophie, who has gone missing.
Tommy Mooney--back in England after his adventures in Telegram For Mrs. Mooney--goes with his brother's fiancée to RAF Rochford, where he begins to suspect that a Nazi spy is working mischief at the base. Airmen are mysteriously wounded, Spitfires are sabotaged, someone has been poisoning the food..
With only a telegram to guide him, twelve-year-old Tommy Mooney leaves his Long Island home in search of his big brother Jack—a RAF Spitfire pilot missing in action somewhere in Nazi occupied Europe. Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, Saboteur, Telegram For Mrs. Mooney will introduce you to a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal "everyman" hero.