The Foxes of Harrow 1946: When Stephen Fox arrived in New Orleans in 1825 on a pig boat, with a ten-dollar gold piece, a pearl stick pin, he pitted himself against the indolent, slave-ridden, caste bound planters, with the skill and daring of the card-sharp he was. He gambled, won and built "Harrow", the greatest mansion house and plantation in Louisiana. He took the love of three women: Odalie Orceneaux, his wife; her sister, Aurore; and Desiree, his Black mistress. Fox had a child by each of them. This story is charged with blood and passion and strife between the races.

The Vixens 1947: 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.

The Golden Hawk 1948: This is the story of desperate men, escaping the harsh rule of European aristocrats whose voracious appetites for treasure outweighs all other considerations. Piracy became their only option and all of Europe felt their wrath.

Pride's Castle 1949: The rags to riches story of a great robber baron and the women who loved him. Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons" whose brazen contempt for human decency or moral restraint left a legacy of the "public be damned" that continues as the cornerstone of American public policy even today. Ethically bankrupt and corrupt beyond comprehension, the robber barons perverted economic and political processes, converted the public good to their server their own personal ends and acquired untold riches from the misery and suffering of workers. Dawson built his empire by destroying all who opposed him. With plunder as a goal and power as an instrument, Pride's Castle depicts a man with a boundless appetite for ruthlessness. And it also tells of his boundless love for Sharon O'Neill, a woman with as much goodness in her soul as he had evil.

Floodtide 1950: He loved her enough to invade another country to find her. Born in a shack on Natchez-Under-the-Hill, the abode of cutthroats, thieves, brawling river men and ladies of easy virtue, Ross Pary had but one goal: to reach Natchez-on-the Hill, where gentlemen planters lived a life of graciousness and ease in porticoed mansions. In physical distance, there was less than a mile between the two worlds, but in social distance, the residents of Natchez-on-the-Hill flourished a half-world away. Yet, there is more to Floodtide than Ross Pary's struggle for social acceptance through the passions and conflicts of his tangled loves. It is the story of a chivalrous South overreaching itself for an overseas slave empire and reaching the floodtide of its fortunes in the lush decade of the 1850s.

A Woman Called Fancy 1951: Fancy fled an incestuous marriage arranged by a drunken father. She had little education and no money. But with the priceless gifts of courage, honor and high personal integrity, Fancy won out against all odds and wrenched from life a position of respect and security.... a life that was secure against everyone except her husband. Court Brantley, had already killed one man for her and Fancy knew that if he ever found out about Jed Hawkins he would do so again.

The Saracen Blade 1952: The teeming world of the 13th century witnessed bright colors, banners fluttering against the sky above the lists at a tourney.  Fair damsels with their long hair caught in cunning nets of gold thread, clad in silk and samite, velvet and ermine waved at bejeweled noblemen flaunting the arrogant insignias of their proud houses. A corps of sober monks clad in brown and black habits served the lordly bishops. And above all, the clean, bright gleam of a crusader's chain mail worn by nobles and knaves alike proclaimed that this society valued war above everything. This is a story of how crusaders turned their savagery on Christian and heathen alike. A war of the rich and powerful against the poor and lowly. How miserable serfs, wearing coarse jerkins smelling of dumb sweat, bound to their lord's service forever forced to labor on lands, which can never belong tothem. This was a time when nobles, secure in their castles and armor committed every barbarity imaginable. It was from the oppressed masses that Pietro di Donati, the son of a murdered blackmith sprang, to become a wealthy knight and to marry into one of the powerful families of Europe. This book was made into a movie.

The Devil's Laughter 1953: Down the street came a parade of children; they were beating a small keg for a drum and playing homemade flutes. And on the ends of improvised pikes, they bore the heads of three cats, still dripping blood. After witnessing the continuing spectacle of human heads being daily paraded through Parisian streets, the French children had become little monsters. Paris was so filled with hatred for everyone and everything that reason, itself, stood decapitated. So during the French Revolution, Parisians and their society sank into abject depravity. This was the society that Jean Paul Marin, who at the age of twenty, was beaten and imprisoned by the noble class and by the age of twenty five helped create the inhumane society required for the great bloodletting of the Napoleonic wars.

Bride of Liberty 1954: The story of the Revolutionary War and the men and women who sacrificed everything for liberty. Polly Knowles loved her sister's fiancé, Ethan Page. And even knowing, Ethan loved her sister still, Polly followed Ethan from bloody Bunker Hill to the bitterly cold campground of Valley Forge… and to the final victory at Yorktown. Ultimately, Polly wins Ethan’s gratitude…and his love. This is the story of the birth of a nation and the forging of destiny.

Benton's Row 1954: This history of one pioneering Southern family unfolds in a story of triumphs and tragedies. It begins on the day in 1842 when Tom Benton arrives in the Red River Valley, one jump ahead of a Texas posse bent on hanging him, and ends in 1920 when his wife Sarah, aged ninety-seven, dies peacefully in her rocker on the veranda of the plantation house at Broad Acres, Set in the exotic and mysterious Louisiana river country, this spellbinding story tells of four brawling generations of Bentons  and how the family came to a violent end by its illicit Negro branch.

The Treasure of Pleasant Valley 1955: Sacramento gold transformed San Francisco with unscrupulous men dominating both. Handsome, aristocratic Bruce Harkness came to California in 1849 determined to erase the scars of the past. Behind him lay his family's ruined plantation, and the mocking memory of a beautiful woman who loved him but married another. Amid the feverish greed and brutality of a world gone mad, Harkness tastes vengeance sweeter than love in the arms of his best friend's Mexican wife and in his insatiable lust for gold. This story tells how the life of a Mexican in California during the gold rush days became forfeit.Hard Bound

Captain Rebel 1955: He was one rebel who would defy his own cause for a higher purpose. This is thestory of the little-known exploits of the Confederate blockade-runners who supplied the Confederacy with guns and supplies. Tyler Meredith, not only rebels against the United States, but he betrays his own kind by romancing a Negro beauty, Lauriel, in a strange, illicit affair. The slave-owning Rene Doumier who hates every drop of Negro blood in his own veins and Ben Butler, the Yankee General who occupies New Orleans earning the title, 'the Beast' make this a never to be forgotten story.

Fairoaks 1956: The coalition between a white slaver and the African chief works towards the enslavement of thousands ... Guy Falks, a Southern aristocrat, lives a lie. Driven by the twin furies of ambition and revenge, Guy Falks immerses himself and others for eighteen long years in the evils of selling human flesh even as he indulges his own passions with women from the despised and despoiled African race. He earns a fortune in the African slave trade by forming a partnership with a chieftain whose desire for white women makes him willing to sell his own people into slavery. Fairoaks tells the story of a vast southern plantation and of four generations of angry men and loyal women willing to make any sacrifice for its possession.

The Serpent and the Staff 1958: Duncan Childers was born to be a physician. He is driven. Emerging from the crushing poverty of New Orleans' Irish Channel, Duncan graduates from medical school and begins a modest practice.  But by a rendezvous with fate and the passionate love of two women sends him off course. Through the support and connections of his socially prominent wife who wants to control both him and his career Duncan finds himself moving up in a profession that cares little for the sick. However, the self-sacrifice and dedication of his nurse continually reminds him of his great calling. Great are the forces arrayed against him. But these are nothing compared to the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan who vows to keep all ‘niggers’ even the former slave who Duncan has assisted in bringing modern medicine to his own people.

Jarrett's Jade 1959: Poor beyond description with nothing but a title, his pride was enough for him to carve a plantation from the wilderness. James Jarrett arrived in Savannah in 1736. A Highland aristocrat clad in kilt and tartan, James resettled the Jarretts in Georgia intending to establish a great Southern dynasty. But his love for Simone Duclos whom he purchased at a slave auction, forced Jarrett to live a double life. Eventually Jarrett’s son and heir came to hate own his father and in 1776 deserted Laird Jarrett’s Jade plantation on the eve of the War for Independence.

Gillian 1960: Yerby's only whodunit keeps the reader guessing until the very end.Gillian, the heiress of an Alabama fortune, is capable of great loving kindness.  But her appetite for corrupting and ruining lives is stronger. One of the many people whose life she ruined murdered her. Now Geoffrey Lynne must find out who done it  before his brother, Gregory, is hung for the crime. Geoffrey knows Gregory is innocent. The only problem is that Gregory has confessed and his execution has been scheduled.

The Garfield Honor 1961: Roak Garfield loves a woman and leaves for the Civil War. In a cruel twist of fate,  the woman to kill herself as well as her unborn child. Vowing vengeance, the woman’s brother searches for Roak in the Texas panhandle where Roark has married the daughter of a wealthy rancher. Escaping to Mexico, Roark Garfield  becomes involved with a beautiful Mexican woman whose brother also vows to kill the American for his sister’s honor. This story is about a terrible game of cat-and-mouse played by desperate men across half a nation. It also is a story of women who find themselves helplessly trapped in schemes of vengeance and power.

Griffin's Way 1962:, The Klan had no sense of right and wrong only a sense of superior and inferor ... and they intended it to keep it that way. As the Grand Dragon of the Ku KluxKlan, Di Cadwallader is determined that in post-war Mississippi there will be no equality between the races even if he must murder women, children and liberal whites. Even Laurie Griffin, the wife of another man, who Cadwallader claims to love, is not safe from his murderous campaign in defense of white supremacy. Mississippi’s climate of evil is so compelling that the black man, sent to educate the children of ex-slaves, embezzles the funds he is given and amasses a personal fortune intending to flee North. This is a story about what actually happened in the South after the Civil War.

The Old Gods Laugh 1964: Immediately upon his arrival in Costa Verde, Peter Reynolds, an American correspondent, is plunged into the midst of a violent revolution. Dictator, Miguel Villalonga as well as the rebels, seek the support of a Catholic priest, a man of god, who wields power over the Indian peons. While Padre Pio is being held hostage in the mountains by a band of guerrillas, the dictator is scouring the land for the priest. But "old gods" residing in the great volcano of Zopocomapetl decide to settle the conflict themselves, erupting in anger and pouring their fury upon rulers and rebels alike.

An Odor of Sanctity 1965: The drama of Muslim Spain under attack from a new Christian messiah. Ninth century Spain was the tumultuous battleground between East and West, Muslim and Christian, saint and infidel. Alaric, the Christian Goth, wades through the raging sea of religious passion and hate. Admired by theMoors and employed by the Jews, Alaric is a feared swordsman a scholar and prophet. Some even claim that he is a saint, but others believe he is the devil.It might have been better had the Emir, al-Rahman II followed the advice of his counselors and put Alaric to death. But in the end, the emir, himself, falls under Alaric’s spell and becomes an unwitting pawn in Arian Christianity’s ultimate defeat of Islam.

Goat Song 1967: Ariston, a young heroic Spartan, is cursed and blessed by the Hellenic ideal of male beauty. The time of the Peloponnesian War is a period of dynamic energy, of burgeoning culture and festering decadence. Greeks witness Sparta's excessive cruelty and Athen's male sexuality. This is ancient Greece. On battlefield and slave market, temple and brothel, are found Socrates’ discourses and Alcibiades’ revels. The brutalizing code of Sparta competes with the brilliant sophistication of Athens. Caught between these contradictions, Ariston  is enslaved and brought to Athens where these competing philosophies force the Spartan youth must choose between his home and his passions.

Judas, My Brother 1968: Frank Yerby writes in Judas, My Brother: “This novel touches on only two issues which, in a certain sense, might be called controversial: whether any man truly has the right to believe fanciful and childish nonsense; and whether any organization has the right to impose, by almost imperial fiat, belief in things that simply are not so. To me, irrationality is dangerous; perhaps the most dangerous force stalking through the world today. This novel, then, is one man's plea for an ecumenicism broad enough to include reasonable men; and his effort to defend his modest intellect from intolerable insult.”

Speak Now 1969: He was her knight in shining armor except he was black and she was a Southern belle ... and pregnant Harry Forbes didn't give a damn about Paris. It was a city, a place where he could earn good money as a jazz musician, a place to forget his blackness. There was no room in his life for a white girl like Kathy Nichols. She was too young, too much the daughter of a wealthy Southern tobacco planter. But Harry found himself giving his name to another man's child and marrying this white woman that he dared not love.

The Dahomean 1971: The prince was respected by all except his warring wives and his jealous brother. Nyasanu Dosu Agausu Hwesu Gbokau Kesu, was son of Gbenu, a great chief. Hwesu, himself, was governor of the province of Alladah in Dahomey, husband to six wives, one of whom was daughter of the king. Hwesu was a young lion. He was unconquerable in battles waged over a vast empire ravaged by tribal wars. But his own brother betrayed Hwesu. And the governor of Alladah found himself in a white man’s tall ship chained to other miserable black wretches on his way to a strange land across the sea.

The Girl from Storyville 1972: From the very beginning fate drove Fannie Turner in a most terrible way. Her life circumstances, family, even her own desires conspire to drive her into the depths of shame and despair.  Fannie had not the slightest inkling of how to halt or even slow her descent into hell. Deserted by her prostitute mother, Fanny confuses her need to find love and respectability with behavior that invites only betrayal and humiliation. She seems fated to work in Storyville, the notorious New Orleans red light district at her mother's house of prostitution. Even the aristocratic Phillippe Sompayac, who offers Fanny a way to a respectable life is damned for even knowing her.

The Voyage Unplanned 1974: John Farrow remembers his life in WWII France and the titanic struggle against the Nazis. He also remembers his passion for Simone Levy, a Jewish woman, who is willing to fight and die for freedom. When Simone vanishes in Nazi-occupied France, John believes her dead. But her ghost haunts him into believing she survived the holocaust and his betrayal. So Farrow makes this unplanned journey into post-war France to find Simone. This is the story of the founding of the OSS, rechristened as the CIA, and how after the war it helped America to adopt the Gestapo’s methods of population control and terror.

Tobias and the Angel 1975: A rollicking tale of the natural and supernatural ... and a guardian angel. Tobias has a metal plate in his head as a result of a WWI wound. The plate causes him to see and hear his guardian angel, Angie. A few others can see the angel as well … primarily females who find Angie irresistible … even though Angie must use Tobias’ body. Somewhat embittered because of his relationship with the ‘old cuss’, Angie has become an irreligious rake around whom no woman is safe. However, Angie is committed to getting Tobias married to a certain woman who will inherit millions … specifically his cousin. Angie takes Tobias on a wild, extravagant and erotic adventure that is certain to scandalize all but a few readers.

A Rose for Ana Maria 1976: Sometimes fighting your parent's battles is fatal to the children. Diego, a young Spanish revolutionary living in Paris, has killed the Spanish Consul to France. It was a revolutionary act ordered by his superiors in Spain. Diego intends to return to Spain and continue the fight against fascism that has been raging since the Spanish Civil War. Diego’s superiors order him to team up with another revolutionary for another assassination. Diego's partner is Ana Maria, a foul-mouthed, provocative daughter of an aristocratic family . Their story is one of youthful idealism leading to love and tragedy.

Hail the Conquering Hero 1978: In this sequel to The Old Gods Laugh, Manuel Garcia Herredia holds Costa Verdein the grip of a dictatorship. Bribery, blackmail and murder protect the dictator’s heroin empire. Herredia converts Costa Verde into a virtual concentration camp. Believing the new United States ambassador, James Randolf Rush, to be a potential threat, the Costa Verdian dictator ensnares Rush in a sex scandal that can lead to disgrace...and recall. But when Rush threatens to go public with the dictator’s atrocities not only is his reputation, but his very life is in danger.

A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest 1979: In this sequel to the The Dahomean, Hwesu, has lost his land, people and even his name. No longer Nyasanu Dosu Agausu Hwesu Gbokau Kesu, son of Gbenu, he is simply Wes Parks, black slave. Yet, Hwesu has lost neither his physical power nor his metalworking and healing skills nor the magic left to him by his Dahomean ancestors. And with magic, intelligence and sheer will, Hwesu, now Wes, wages a relentless struggle against his white masters, confounding their assertion of intellectual superiority at every turn. But if there is a white person who can see how Wes intends to use his power, it is the Northern-born, liberal-minded, Pamela Bibbs, owner of the Ingraham's Crest plantation. And despite the twisted feelings and emotional ties Pamela has for this Black slave, she, too, is swept up into the consciousness of being a slave owner whose use of the whip on her hapless victims is the right of all white people. So Wes realizes that if he is to make good his plans for escape and revenge, he must decide how to handle Ms. Pamela Bibbs.

Western 1982: This tale of love, honor and revenge is set in the post-civil war period of Kansas. Civil War veteran, Ethan Lovejoy was determined to settle the American grasslands whose environment was determined by freezing cold blasting down from the artic circle, Lovejoy is haunted by the murdered his brother as well as by the inexorable economic forces which smile upon Abilene and reject Marthasville where he wrestles with the unforgiving land. This is the story of the transition of Kansas from a territory to a state.

Devilseed 1984: Out of the Barbary Coast came the women and men who turned California from
El Dorado to America.In the 1850s, gold lures thousands to California.
Miners dug it, Bankers stacked it… and the glittering bordellos of the
Barbary Coast grabbed as much as they could. Murielle Duclos who sailed into
San Francisco at the age of fifteen years old was sent to get it. Abused and
controlled by her mother's lover, Murielle was forced into a life of
prostitution. But the political struggle between the Mexicanos
and the Americans for ultimate control of California gave Murielle the
opportunity to become wealthier than all her rivals. She realized her
ambitions by understanding a simple fact: in the Golden State, power is more
important than gold.

McKenzie's Hundred 1985: Rambling Rose McKenzie is caught up in the Civil War in a way no self-respecting daughter of one of Virginia First Families should have been. Under the spell of Count Sisimond Kurt Radetsky, a member of the Austrian Death's Head Secret Service, Rose serves the confederacy as a spy. Rose believes in the South's aristocratic pretensions of chivalry and honor. She hopes that her sacrifices will make the cavalier aware of how equally endowed with feelings of honor, courage and patriotism are Southern women who want but the opportunity to be respected by their men. It takes Radetsky's murder of innocent black children during the New York Draft riots to make Rose realize what an absolutely monster she has married and the evil basis of the entire southern way of life.