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Howes bloody and brutal writing immerses readers in a uniquely violent but totally thrilling era. The Guardian
FromTheNew York Timesbestselling author Katherine Howe comes a 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 down the treasure and change the tides.
Meanwhile, professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannahs 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 Masurys 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.
Katherine Howeis the author of
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbsand
The New York Timesbestsellers
The Physick Book of Deliverance Daneand
The House of Velvet and Glass, as well as the young adult novels
Conversionand
The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen. She served as editor of
The Penguin Book of Witches,and her fiction has been translatelc˝
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