Savannah Quartet · Book 3
Before the Darkness Falls
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 1
- ISBN-13
- 9780515105384
- Type
- novel

About this book
Before the Darkness Falls continued the quartet in 1987, two years after To See Your Face Again. As the third book, it deepens the historical weight bearing down on the Browning, Mackay and Stiles families as Savannah's entanglement with slavery and approaching war intensifies.
Its place in Savannah Quartet
Before the Darkness Falls is book 3 in the Savannah Quartet series. It follows To See Your Face Again. It is followed by Stranger in Savannah. See the full Savannah Quartet reading order.
The Savannah Quartet follows the real Browning, Mackay and Stiles families of Savannah, Georgia, from the War of 1812 through the Civil War era. It opens with Mark Browning, a young man who comes under the mentorship of real Savannah merchant Robert Mackay and his wife Eliza -- herself a descendant of the McQueen family Price had already documented in the Florida Trilogy -- and widens across the four novels into a multi-generational portrait of Savannah's merchant class and its entanglement with slavery, war, and…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780515105384