The Wrath and the Wind Author:Alexander Key The fierce cry ripped through the auction room. Already four slave girls had been sold. Now the promoters & gamblers of frontier Florida wanted Zeda, the ivory-skinned beauty. But when the bidding began it was Maury St. John, adventurer and blackbirder, who got her for $5,000 in gold. Though he had bought Zeda, it was golden-haired Catherine... more » Delafield of Salem whom Maury loved. Then one horrible night spent with Catherine opened Maury's eyes to the devilish passion that kept her belonging to any man. Disillusioned, Maury went off on a slave-buying trip. The adventure ruined him. And it brought a yellow jack plague to St. Joseph, Florida-a plague that was only wiped out in the cleansing fury of a tropical hurricane!« less