Hurricanes and Blaises: Meet Nancy Mayo

When Buddy Holly died in a tragic plane crash in 1959 it sent shock waves around the country. The restless innocence of an entire generation, just finding and beginning to spread their wings, was threatened. On sleepy old Cape Cod Nancy Mayo is an attractive and popular middle school student who only wishes to do well at school and please her parents. Then Bernadette Blaise and her parents come to visit. Bernadette's father is a French World War Two veteran who met Nancy's father, Police Chief Joe Mayo, in Paris on Liberation Day. Nancy doesn't know what to make of Bernadette's rebellious nature though she promises to do her best to take care of the visiting exchange student. In the meantime her father is involved in a mysterious murder investigation- someone is killing seals on Nauset Beach- and Joe Mayo hopes to heck none of the local fishermen are involved. Overshadowing all this a hurricane of unknown proportions is fast approaching the idyllic seaside town and her anxious inhabitants. Tapping into unknown qualities of courage and intelligence Nancy Mayo finds herself joining forces with her French classmate to help solve her father's case before disaster strikes.

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