daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure
as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.
In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah
Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to
take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town
square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced
to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the
notorious pirate Edward Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for
herself, Hannah must hunt downthe treasure and change the tides.
Meanwhile, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah's story together in
1930, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected back at her as she watches
Hannah's transformation. At the center of Hannah Masury's account, however,
lies a centuries-old mystery that Marian is determined to solve, just as Hannah
may have been determined to take it to her grave.
A True Accounttells the unforgettable story of two women in different worlds,
both shattering the rules of their own society and daring to risk everything to
go out on their own account.
Author Bio
Katherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick
Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass, as well as the
young adult novels, Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen .
She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has
been translated into over twenty languages. Descended from three women
who were tried for witchcraft in Salem, she and her family live in New England
and New York City, where she is at work on her next novel.
Henry Holt & Co
On Sale: Nov 21/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 288 pages
printed 2/c ends
9781250304889 • $38.99 • CL - With dust jacket
Fiction / Historical