Who is Rachel Flood from the novel, The Flood Girls?

Rachel Flood, one of the novel's main characters, has moved back to town after nearly nine years away, to make amends with her mother. At the Fireman’s Ball in 1991, she is ostracized by everyone in Quinn, including her mother and her mother’s best friend, Red Mabel. The only person who will talk to her is the young Bucky, who is too young to remember Rachel’s past.