Publication Date: May 12, 2026
Lady B may have married Bluebeard; she may have fallen in love with a gorgeous, grumpy solicitor; she may have met a ghost and survived to tell the tale! New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Eloisa James delights with witty historical romance with a gothic twist.
In the depths of winter, Lady Genevieve Hughes, her pet piglet, and her septuagenarian husband travel to a haunted abbey in the Scottish Highlands. Evie is excited to meet a ghost (perhaps one of her husband’s three previous wives), but didn’t expect the funny, quirky guests to become the friends she’s never had. And she certainly didn’t imagine meeting Sir Godric Everly, a sardonic, witty solicitor who loathes her husband.
Yet as secrets and lies turn Evie’s world upside down, Sir Godric becomes the one person whom she can trust.
When ghosts, multiple wills, and a shocking marriage certificate bring Lord Burnsby’s past crashing into his present, Burnsby promptly dies, leaving Evie free to remarry…though as a virgin wife, now a virgin widow, she is more unnerved by the marriage bed than a spectral visit.
More importantly, she has to figure out whose identity is false, whose vows are dishonorable, whose truths could destroy her reputation—and where her heart belongs.
Without a dowry, Lady Genevieve Hughes opts to marry a widower (x3) old enough to be her grandfather in order to secure her sister’s future.
This self-sacrificial effort unfolds as the premise of the latest Regency tale by Eloisa James. The Last Lady B boasts a gothic twist with its setting in a Scottish abbey rumored to be haunted by Lord Burnsby’s past wives.
Told in first person from Genevieve’s perspective, the story combines humor and zany characters. Not only is there a pet pig, but Aunt Mima’s forgetful nature offers multiple laughs.
When Genevieve discovers that her husband has been less than truthful, she finds herself making unexpected alliances with others in the household. And for someone who prides herself on being a lady, nothing in her etiquette books comes remotely close to helping her current predicament.
As secrets from the past are uncovered, it is Sir Godric Everly who manages to stir Genevieve’s heart as an unlikely ally. When the dust settles, he becomes the hero she never knew she wanted.
The Last Lady B features a bride full of sass who creates her own family…unconventionally, of course.
Eloisa James is a New York Times bestselling author and professor of English literature who lives with her family in New York, but can sometimes be found in Paris or Italy. She is the mother of two and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight.
