From the author of A Cat's Little Instruction Book comes this delightfully suspenseful narrative that can best be told around cat-lovers' campfires. Snuggle up and listen to the tale of Mrs. Moore, an elderly cat who reflects on her adventurous days back in 1899, when she was a stowaway kitten on the schooner Estella Gomez. There, she endures the cruelties of the sailors, who superstitiously believe that cats on board spell D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R. One night the Caribbean seas turn angry, and a terrible storm takes ship and crew in its fury. Washed up on the shore of a mysterious island, Mrs. Moore is befriended by an eccentric, sensitive boy who nurses her back to health. She's embraced into the warm confines of the lighthouse keeper's bungalow, enjoying sunny, happy days in her newfound tropical home of Key West. But then a surprise visitor pays a call to the lighthouse, and reawakens Mrs. Moore's memories of the tempest that claimed the ship.