The Vixens — Frank Yerby

LAIRD FOURNOIS -- A former Union Forces solier, was reckless at love and a legend in New Orleans. Now, his honor belonged to an insane woman, Sabrina; his heart to the golden-skinned hellion, Denise.

SABRINA -- Behind her beauty was a mind warped by terror. In the dark confusion of her life, there was only one sharp reality -- her love for her husband, who had spent his wedding night in another woman's arms.

DENISE LASCALS -- She was the talk of Louisiana. Her open pursuit of pleasure made women whisper. Her violet eyes made Laird forget his wife.

America's latter-day secret societies are born in this sequel to The Foxes of Harrow: Defeated feudal lords of the South attempting to set back the clock of history. White Leaguers and Klansmen swoop down to terrorize recently liberated Blacks. Brawling, thieving northern carpetbaggers display no conscience other than the dollar sign. Mulatto half-breeds wander about with confused identities fall victim to there own confused behaviors. As creeping swamps and forests reclaim the once luxurious Southern mansions, scalawags, men of Southern birth and breeding, and carpetbaggers reach out and feed on the decay of a wounded, bitter South.