St. Simons Trilogy

About the St. Simons Trilogy series

Eugenia Price's first historical fiction and the series that launched her second career, the St. Simons Trilogy grew directly out of her 1961 discovery of a tombstone on St. Simons Island, Georgia, for the Reverend Anson Dodge -- the real historical figure whose life anchors The Beloved Invader (1965). The trilogy traces the intertwined real families and history of the island across the 19th century, moving from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, with each book grounded in documented lives and events Price researched on site. It set the template for the rest of her career: meticulously researched Southern historical fiction built around real people rather than invented ones, with the landscape and history of a specific place -- here, St. Simons Island -- functioning almost as a character in its own right.