About this ebook
The writer of the mysterious letter is revealed to be Cassie's Aunt Lee, an aging writer for a travel magazine. With her brother Josh's blessing, Cassie travels to New York and meets with her Aunt. The puzzle is solved when Cassie is asked by Aunt Lee to record her spectacular adventures. This means a new life for Cassie, complete with changing schools and living quarters.
Through her Aunt's memory, which sometimes needs jogging, Cassie relives each of her Aunt’s travels and expeditions. Each Chapter chronicles the escapades of Aunt Lee; adventure, danger and romance lead the reader through tales of intrigue and suspense. Recording her Aunt's stories allows Cassie to reach into the past, stay involved in the present, and have hope for the future. Knowledge of near and far lands is offered to imaginative young readers.
About the author
As a young girl growing up in New Jersey, Marie Therese was an avid reader using books as an escape, dreaming of someday writing works of her own.
First inspired to write by Louisa May Alcott, after reading Little Women, Marie finally put pen to paper when an opportunity to merge her two passions presented itself. As a collector of Vintage Costume Jewelry and an Instructor of Jewelry Creation and Design, she began her career as an author by writing articles for Vintage Fashion Costume Jewelry magazine once the magazine’s editor, Lucille Tempesta, encouraged her. Through the support of her friends and family, especially her daughter Kristen who told her to “never give up”, Marie Therese realized her dream of writing The Mysterious Letter: Aunt Lee's Legacy, her first novel.
Marie Therese’s writing encourages her readers to embrace both the faith and hope that life’s obstacles and crisis’ can be overcome with one simple turn of events.
