MACKINLAY KANTOR
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Andersonville

She had bought many slaves, but none like Beauty Beast. From the moment she saw him—smooth, golden, powerful—she knew she had to own him... 

This rich, sensual novel of a woman's forbidden love for a magnificent young slave brings to violent life the passion, the decadence, the savagery of the Old South. 

With masterly skill, MacKinlay Kantor unfolds the hidden lusts and secret dramas of men and women caught between two worlds—chained to their separate destinies by color and by chance. 

"This is the ante-bellum sex novel to end all ante-bellum sex novels."
—Publishers' Weekly