James P Katus

The Scandalous Eleonore Legare James P Katus

in 1932 nobody would ever consider Eleonore Legare to be scandalous. She was the daughter of one of Grosse Pointe Shores leading auto families, and raised to have impeccable manners and morals. Standards she believed where much higher then the pathetic factory rats that built her daddy's cars. her cushy life took a major hit when her yacht crashed into a coral reef and sunk stranding her on a deserted South Pacific island. Nothing in her life prepared to survive that ordeal. The only other survivor was crew member, Nels Olson, whose hard scrabble life had prepared to know how to make due with meager resources. He was once a factory rat, and union man, in her daddy's Detroit auto plant until the Depression got bad. He also thought nothing striping naked to keep his clothes dry so he could fish and other activities, much to her shock and disgust. Over decade later, as war raged in the South Pacific, the U. S. Navy came to their isolated island followed my a tabloid reporter. She had a scoop about finding the long missing Eleonore Legare. Not satisfied with that, she planned to make the story even more spectacular.