A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

From New York Times bestselling 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 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 Account tells 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: Katherine Howe
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781250304889

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2023 pg. 6
Publishers Weekly 09/04/2023
Library Journal 09/01/2023 pg. 81
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2023
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 34
BookPage 11/01/2023

About the Author
Katherine Howe is the author of The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs and 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