The Red Doe Author:Drayton Mayrant When the electrifying call to arms - the news of Lexington and Concord and Charles Town - aroused the Carolina up-country, there was no choice for brawny Lex Mourne. He knew no price was too high, no sacrifice too great to achieve liberty. Giving up his livelihood, his pleasant existence and hopeful future, he slipped through a Tory net to join ... more »Francis Marion's stalwart rebels in their forest lair!
But through those desperate times of hardship and privation, Lex carried with him the haunting images of three young women: Sal, the "girl next door" who had promised to wait; Peggy, the delicate princess of his boyhood dreams, and impetuous, unpredictable Fire, who demanded more of him than any woman ever had.« less