Set in Hawaii at the dawn of World War II and inspired by a real-life women’s military unit, Code Name Rascal, traces the path of four very different women who joined the Women’s Air Raid Defense, a secret radar unit under the Army Air Corps.
CJ Martino, a firecracker journalist, straight out of Columbia moves to Hawaii to set the newspaper world on fire. CJ and Marine Lieutenant Joe Delano marry two days before Pearl Harbor is attacked and which challenges her career and her marriage.
Eve Russell, a Honolulu society girl, joins the unit to avoid the grip of her overbearing mother, and finds herself thrust into a world where she is measured by her performance, not her last name, and in the end, Eve must choose between wealth and love.
Ruth Elliott is “third-generation Navy” wife, who defines her life’s purpose as a mother and an officer’s wife, grapples with private grief that overshadows her self-worth. Sequestered with the other WARDs, her quiet self-destruction is exposed, and her path to resolution leads to divorce or self-acceptance.
Jane Meade, a Texas aviatrix who dreamed of being a pilot from the first time a plane landed at her family ranch, married a man who dreamed of building an aviation company that would hire only girls! But he talked and drank more than he worked.
Code Name Rascal is set against the backdrop of the first six months of the war, when land invasion by the enemy was an imminent threat, and life under martial law restricted or denied basic freedoms, a little-know historical fact, is exposed.
Told with emotional nuance and historical accuracy, Code Name Rascal celebrates the life and resilience of local civilian women thrust into military roles. It reveals the bonds of four fictional women, in unlikely friendships, as it examines the themes of duty, self-sacrifice and survival.
It is a gripping story of the reality of war and “every day” courage told from women’s perspective.

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