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Savannah Quartet
The Savannah Quartet series by Eugenia Price has 4 known books (4 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Savannah (1983).
- Books
- 4 known books (4 novels)
- Published
- 4
- First published
- 1983
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Historical Fiction
- Last checked
Start here: Savannah (1983) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Savannah
Eugenia Price opened the Savannah Quartet in 1983 with Savannah, her longest entry in the series at 608 pages. It introduces Mark Browning, a young man who comes under the mentorship of real Savannah merchant Robert Mackay and his wife Eliza, launching a multi-generational portrait of the real Browning, Mackay and Stiles families from the War of 1812 through the Civil War era.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Savannah - Book 2:
To See Your Face Again
To See Your Face Again followed two years later, in 1985, at 546 pages. It continues the overlapping-generations structure that makes the Savannah Quartet Price's most structurally ambitious series, widening the portrait of Savannah's merchant class as the Mackay and Stiles family stories move toward the Civil War era.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of To See Your Face Again - Book 3:
Before the Darkness Falls
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.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Before the Darkness Falls - Book 4:
Stranger in Savannah
Price closed the series in 1989 with Stranger in Savannah, the fourth and final book at 755 pages, its longest since the opener. It brings the multi-generational Browning, Mackay and Stiles saga to its conclusion as the Civil War era closes in on the real Savannah families the quartet is built around.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Stranger in Savannah
About the Savannah Quartet series
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 the city's own turbulent 19th-century history. It's the most structurally ambitious of Price's series: four books following overlapping generations of the same interconnected families rather than a single continuous protagonist, with the historical emphasis deepening across the later volumes as the Mackay and Stiles family stories move toward the Civil War.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Savannah Quartet?
Four: Savannah (1983), To See Your Face Again (1985), Before the Darkness Falls (1987), and Stranger in Savannah (1989).
What families does the Savannah Quartet follow?
The real Browning, Mackay and Stiles families of Savannah, Georgia, from the War of 1812 through the Civil War era.
Is the Savannah Quartet connected to Eugenia Price's Florida Trilogy?
Yes -- Eliza Mackay, a central figure in the Savannah Quartet, descends from the McQueen family documented a generation earlier in the Florida Trilogy.
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