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Overview
"A lusty Southern saga, this Gothic extravaganza of greed, madness and murder is a wicked brew, passionate and perverse....Excellently written."COSMOPOLITAN
Ruth Yancey knew she was beautiful, she knew she was special. Despite her squalid Georgia mill town roots, it was her looks and her inbred belief in a powerful destiny that led her to the most exquisite mansion in Sparta: Fox's Earth. Through insinuation, manipulation, and an impenetrable evil, she became its mistress for three generations—until another woman attempted to match her madness....
"Beautifully calculated to keep the pages turning at a fast clip."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
The Foxes were a powerful Southern clan, but all their wealth rested on the whim of one woman, Ruth Yancey Fox. Beauty embodied, evil incarnate, she had risen from squalor to splendor, bringing a family a fortune while she brought down on it a curse. Reissue.
Synopsis
The dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the house that was both their greatest inheritance and their most confining prison.
In 1904, Ruth Yancey is only ten years old when she is brought to live at the magnificent mansion called Fox's Earth. But the impoverished daughter of an abusive mill worker has already internalized her mother's steely code: Men may hold all the power, but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anything in the world she wants...if she's prepared to make certain sacrifices. Deserted by her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth, Ruth's own ambition drives her to possess Fox's Earth at any cost, even though her sacrifice will ultimately be her own husband, children, and grandchildren.