**some markings on back cover and inside page (see picture) and price sticker residue. Light wear to cover and small lower front cover corner crease. **Has Cape Hatteras Light Station Stamp on inside cover page (see picture) ***** Here is a thrilling adventure story about life on North Carolina's Outer Banks during World War II. Thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis is an independent and high-spirited girl who lives with her grandfather on Hatteras Island. With her Banks pony, Sailor, and her boxer puppy, Brandy, she roams the island and finds a mystery to solve. What's going on at the old house in Buxton Woods? Why are the people who live in it so unfriendly and secretive? And what is that eerie light just offshore? What Taffy discovers is a ring of Nazi spies, and it is up to her to help the Coast Guard capture them. Partly based on a true story, the book is a tribute to the courage of the people who lived near "Torpedo Junction," a real place just off Cape Hatteras where German U-boats sank more than sixty American ships in just six months in 1942. The late Nell Wise Wechter, an Outer Banks native, taught school in the area during World War. II. She was a widely admired author, storyteller, historian, and journalist whose other books include Swamp Girl, Betsy Dowdy's Ride, and Teach's Light. A Chapel Hill Book The Inversity of North Carolina Press