Rhett Butler's People: Donald McCaig

Expelled from West Point, Rhett butler begins a life of blockade-running off the South Carolina coast. Launching a lucrative shipping concern in New Orleans and seeking his fortune in the Wild West gold-mad city of San Francisco, he finally returns to Charleston where he first meets the woman who will become his obsession - Scarlett O'Hara. Authorised by the Estate of Margaret Mitchell, this is part prequel and part companion book to the classic Gone With The Wind and sheds light on some of the more mysterious  shadows of Butler's life contained therein.