Rainbow for Clari — Claire Blackburn

What could spoil such a perfect summer? Clari Roberts had been chosen for the artists' program at Rainbow Lake, and in that beautiful mountain resort setting she could paint to her heart's content. And most perfect of all, the fellow artist she was in love with--tall, golden-bearded Mike Stokes--had also been selected for the program.

But someone else was summering at Rainbow Lake; Bunny Moore, as interested in Mile as she was rich and beautiful. How could Clari compete with a girl who wore English riding clothes and had her name lettered in gold on the door of her own MG?

Someone else concerned Clari, too--Bart Channing, a dark hulk of a man who was the resort director, and as gentle as he was strong. And old leg injury caused the proud Bart to limp, he was so self-conscious that he avoided sports and brooded by himself. And it puzzled Clari that Bart would allow a woman from his past, the red-haired and glamorous Renee Lyons, to persist in humiliating him.

In fourteen oils Clari painted all that she saw and felt during the summer. And though there were sunny, loving moments, there were so many more stormy ones that she began to wonder if the proverbial rainbow would ever appear on her horizon.