The Peacock Is a Bird of Prey Author:Rae Foley Silken Snares: Freed suddenly from a cloistered existence by the death of a domineering mother, Hiram Potter embarked on a new life filled with excitement, fueled by wealth, and marked with hidden dangers. — There was Deborah, his cousin, who exerted a strange and powerful hold on him...Patricia, the socialite whose beauty was matched by her cru... more »elty...Opal, the free spitit who introduced him into a forbidden world...and Jennie, whose terror drew Hiram into a whirlpool of murder and intrigue that promised to drown him.« less