This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

Fifteen years after the Civil War the people of Bowden, Alabama still hate Marcus Hubbard for wartime profiteering. He's also at odds with wife Lavinia and his sons, conniving Ben and weak Oscar; but beautiful daughter Regina gets all she wants from him. Conflicts intensify when Regina gets involved with John Bagtry, scion of the old gentry, and Oscar with the Ku Klux Klan; on a stormy night, family relationships unravel.—Rod Crawford <[email protected]>

The early days of the Hubbards of Bowden, Alabama, a family of Southern schemers and grifters, consisting of the father - the most-hated man in town - his retiring wife, who has a secret or two of her own, their daughter and two sons. One of the sons uncovers a family secret, which, if revealed, will likely lead to the lynching of his father, and threatens to disclose it if the father doesn't sign over to him all of his wealth.—Les Adams <[email protected]>