The Wrath and The Wind (Used Hardcover) - Alexander Key

Off the fog laden, shoal-ridden Florida coast, Maury St. James pilots his schooner Salvador, with the battered remnants of a load of black slaves below decks. He is headed for the twin ports of Apalachicola and St. Joseph - known along the Gulf Coast, and not unjustly, as Sodom and Gomorrah.  For with the thriving cotton trade that shipping has brought to Apalachicola and the unbelievable railroad to St. Joseph, there have come also to these ports all the facilities for the dissipation of easily acquired wealth.

On the dense fog Maury's vessel nearly runs down the barkentine Catherine Delafield. It is a fateful meeting. The owner's daughter, whose name adorns the ship is a strangely beautiful and strangely natured girl, of mixed Salem and Creole heritage.

The original dust jacket is very worn and has a large rip on the back cover.