"To say Anne Rivers Siddons is a Southern writer is not to diminish her talent, but to describe the style, subject, and sheer seductive power of her writing. One doesn’t read her books; one dwells in them, ... Shc knows the lay of the land and of the human heart and delineates both with a lush lyricism that seems to grow from the very soil."

--Chicago Tribune

The first time Ruth Yancey saw Fox’s Earth-the magnificent Georgia estate of the wealthy and privileged Fox family-she was a child who had known only poverty and abuse... yet she knew in her heart it would someday be hers. Years later, as Ruth Yancey Fox, she would enter its gates, vowing not just to live there, but to rule. And in the decades to follow she would pursue her dream with a vengeance--dominating everyone and everything under her roof. For nothing and no one would ever take Fox’s Earth from her-no matter how much scheming and subterfuge was required...or how many lives she had to cruelly destroy.