Cotton Moon — Catherine Tracy

ONE GLANCE won her

Jan Van Ord was a blond brute of a man who'd stop at nothing to get what he wanted. When he found Ellen he won her heart with a glance of his eyes, her body with a touch of his hands. But he had to kill to possess her completely. His land bore huge crops, harvested with the blood and sweat of his slaves. He knew no fear, for to him all black men were weak and only a strong man can hate. But he soon learned that a desperate man, black or white, could hate too -- enough to burn and pillage Van Ord's home…enough to attack Van Ord's woman in a frenzy of violence…enough to join with other desperate men and plunge a nation into bloody war. Even Van Ord, tough as he was, found himself powerless to stem the tide of destruction.