RAINBOW

Rating:
Summary: excellent. excellent. excellent.........................
Review: Potter has proven time and again that she is an excellent writer and an expert on human behaviour. This book is wonderful. Set in pre-civil war south, Meredith Seaton was raised by her cold, callous father...and she dearly loved her black half sister! Her plantation owner father sold Lissa to avoid scandal and Meredith was devastated. She withdrew into herself determined that she would find her sister one day....Years later she emerges as this eccentric, southern belle ninny......corkscrew curls, makeup, layers of frilly, unbecoming dresses and a giggle that breaks glass. In this guise she is not only searching for Lissa but helping free slaves for the underground railroad. The dialogue and situations she devises for her "character" are a sketch. However in her travels she meets Capt Quinn Devereaux, a paddle boat owner who clearly 'mistreats' his slave, Cam. Quinn can't understand why he is drawn to this air headed girl and with secrets of his own he tries very hard not to be. A gambler, rogue and intimidating man, he has scars to prove the hell he has lived through and he distances himself from people to survive. He also hides a gentler self that even he doesn't know exists anymore. When meredith sticks her nose in secret business, quinn is forced to kidnap her to save the lives of his friends. Meredith jumps overboard to escape him and he believes she is dead and quinn is beyond distraught. Don't want to give the plot away but this book has many facets and never a dull moment. Each character has full background and you learn the
stuff in their souls........love, adventure, history and characters to love...It's a keeper......(p.s. is quinn also with the underground railroad????)