The Vixens Author:Frank Yerby Lives in the south just after the end of the Civil War, and the complexities of rebuilding lives, families, and communities And because it was a time of confusion, and of terror, it was not always easy to tell the good from the bad, so that a manexamining his own heart in the darkness could not know with any degree of surety whether he sinned o... more »r stood up tall in honor. So it was that Laird Fournois came back from Andersonville to become a renegade in the eyes of his people. But those who knew him best, worshipped him. A woman died for love of him. Ask them. Listen well. Think. Then judge.« less