Histria Books is pleased to announce the release of A True Lady by Edith Layton. This novel is published by Histria Romance, an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding books in the romance genre.
A True Lady follows Cristabel, the fiercely independent daughter of a pirate captain, as she leaves the Indies for London and attempts to build a life beyond the reputation she inherited. What lifts this historical romance above the expected is Cristabel herself: quick-witted, practical, vividly alive, and unwilling to trade one form of captivity for another. Her pirate upbringing is not a decorative flourish but the source of the book’s humor, nerve, and friction, especially when it collides with the rules of polite society. The novel takes real pleasure in the messiness of reinvention: class, respectability, money, female freedom, and the question of who gets to decide what a “lady” is.
With its sea-salt energy, sharp social observation, and romance that makes room for a heroine’s autonomy, A True Lady offers a fresh answer to readers hungry for historical love stories with women at the center of their own futures.
Edith Layton (1938-2009) began her career as a freelance journalist before publishing her debut novel, The Duke’s Wager. She went on to write over 30 novels, winning numerous accolades including the Romantic Times Award for Best New Regency Author. Today, her classic backlist is being brought to a new generation of readers, along with several never-before-published works.
