Floodtide (novel)
# Floodtide (novel)

Floodtide is a 1950 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby. It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year. Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.

## Synopsis

Ross Pary, the son of a saloon from the poor district of Natchez Under-the-Hill, schemes and fights his way up to join the slaveowner plantation elite of Mississippi.

