The dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the housethat was both their greatest inheritance and their most confining prison.In 1904 ... » 

The dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the housethat 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 themagnificent mansion called Foxs Earth. But the impoverished daughter of anabusive mill worker has already internalized her mothers steely code Men mayhold all the power but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anythingin the world she wants...if shes prepared to make certain sacrifices. Desertedby her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth Ruths ownambition drives her to possess Foxs Earth at any cost even though hersacrifice will ultimately be her own husband children and grandchildren. «