Airway Heights author publishes her first children's book

By CARA LORELLO

Staff Reporter

As a nurse who worked several years with children in Child Protective Services or foster care, Airway Heights resident and award-winning author Jane Nord saw firsthand the long-term effects abandonment and neglect had on young people left at the mercy of those who were supposed to care for them.

Animals, she also found, often experienced the same fate. Not in a position to defend themselves, both often lost the ability to trust after living through bad circumstances. That plight became the basis of a book Nord recently published, entitled “Paranoia: A Cat's Tale....