Comprises two previously published books: Law of the Lash (1968) and Master of Wyndward (1969). This is the first book of the Wyndward series. At Wyndward plantation, the Turners grew tobacco and raised horses, but slaves were their most profitable product. Jonathan Turner mated bucks to wenches and produced prime black stock for sale. To his son, Fitzjohn, also, blacks were subhuman chattel, except for one copper-skinned girl whom he cherished with a passion. Between white and black, such passion is called lust. Between Fitzjohn and Nina, lust ripened into love, and the very foundations of the Turner empire shook in the fury of the Wyndward Passion

In the aftermath of the Civil War Fitzjohn Turner fights to unite his family in order to oppose the power of the Ku Klux Klan