Death and Mr. Potter

the long version

Silken Snares Freed suddenly from a cloistered existence by the death of a domineering mother, Hiram Potter embarked on a new life filled with excitement, fueled by wealth, and marked with hidden dangers. There was Deborah, his cousin who exerted a strange and powerful hold on him... Patricia, the socialite whose beauty was matched by her cruelty... Opal, the free spirit who introduced him into a forbidden world.. and Jennie, whose terror drew Hiram into a whirlpool of murder and that promised to drown him.