A love carried across oceans. A kingdom built from knowledge.
On Madagascar, a princess and her sworn protector defy a king for a love that could cost them everything. Betrayal and enslavement tear them apart. Fate draws them toward the young Carolina colony—and toward a reunion neither believed possible.
They arrive in Charles Towne carrying African knowledge of rice cultivation capable of transforming the colony. Their survival becomes the beginning of immense prosperity, and of a human tragedy that will reshape America.
Ranjita and Sitaka’s forbidden bond survives court intrigue, war, forced separation, and the distance of an ocean.
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Knowledge
The skill to grow rice is not a colonial discovery. It is African expertise—carried by people whose intelligence history too often erased.
03
Consequence
A technology that promises survival and abundance becomes entangled with wealth, coercion, and a system of suffering.
“A well-researched and panoramic tale.”
Charleston · South Carolina
The author
Writing from within the Lowcountry’s long memory.
A tenth-generation Lowcountry native, retired Lieutenant Colonel, and storyteller of Carolina’s first century.
E.G. Sturgis writes about the first century of Carolina and the people whose courage, ambition, knowledge, and suffering shaped the colony before the Revolution.
The Saga of Carolina is designed as an expanding historical series—each volume following lives and events that helped create the colony and the myths that followed.
The Rice Kingdom is available now. Choose a retailer, ask about signed copies, or invite E.G. Sturgis to speak with your book club, library, historical society, or event.
