Florida Trilogy

About the Florida Trilogy series

The Florida Trilogy follows John McQueen -- known as Don Juan McQueen after taking Spanish citizenship to hold onto his land -- a real Scottish-born planter navigating Spanish colonial Florida and the fraught, shifting politics of the border between Spanish Florida and the young United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Price traces his life and that of his family across the three novels, continuing the same grounded, research-driven approach to real historical figures she established in the St. Simons Trilogy, this time moved south and further back in time to the colonial period. The McQueen family Price documents here reappears, a generation on, as the ancestors of the Mackay family at the center of her later Savannah Quartet, making the Florida Trilogy the earliest chapter, chronologically, of a much larger family story she would keep returning to across her career.