The Vixens Author:Frank Yerby Stephen Fox arrived in New Orleans in 1825 on a pig boat, with a ten-dollar gold piece, a pearl stick pin...and a dream. Tall, red-haired, with a face that looked like Lucifer's so soon after the fall that the angel-look was still on it, Stephen Fox saw his chance and took it-took it from an indolent, slave-ridden, castebound people, with the s... more »kill and daring of the card-sharp he was. He gambled and won...and built "Harrow", the greatest manor house and plantation in Louisiana.« less