Please help us welcome bestselling and award-winning author Nancy Bilyeau, on tour with Great Reads Book Promotion in August and September.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
From the bestselling author of the Joanna Stafford and Genevieve Planché historical mystery series comes a sequel to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s coming-of-age story with a Gothic twist.
Gloucestershire, 1820: Twenty-two years after the close of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Tilney is living a happily ever after. But her busy life as a clergyman’s wife is shattered by a letter that resurrects her darkest fears. Her daughter Phoebe has fallen under the influence of the unscrupulous Thorpe family—the very figures who once nearly destroyed Catherine’s happiness.
Determined to protect her child from dangerous fortune hunters, Catherine follows Phoebe to an isolated manor on Dartmoor. There, she finds a landscape of reckless passions, family secrets, and a dangerously charming aristocratic neighbor. It all feels eerily like the plot of the latest Gothic sensation, The Vampyre — but is Catherine once again letting her imagination run wild?
In this psychologically charged sequel to Jane Austen’s classic, award-winning historical novelist Nancy Bilyeau transforms Catherine’s youthful adventures into a mystery with the highest of stakes. The Heiress of Northanger Abbey is a story of mothers and daughters, deception and desire—and of a woman who must learn to trust her power of perception before it’s too late.
For Austen fans who adore a high-spirited Regency tale, savor a hint of the Gothic—and long to be transported to the mist-shrouded moors.
AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | GOODREADS
ADVANCE PRAISE
“Prepare to be captivated by this brilliant homage to the Gothic genre that will thrill Austen fans and lovers of historical fiction alike. Impossible to put down!”— Syrie James, bestselling author of The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen and The Mysteries of Pendowar Hall
AUTHOR BIO
If you tell Nancy Bilyeau that reading one of her historical novels of suspense is like strapping yourself into a time machine, you’ll make her day. She loves crafting immersive historical stories, whether it’s Jazz Age New York City in The Orchid Hour, the 18th-century European chateaus and porcelain workshops in The Versailles Formula, The Blue, and The Fugitive Colours, or Henry VIII’s tumultuous England in The Crown, The Chalice, and The Tapestry.
Nancy’s mind is always in past centuries but she currently lives with her husband and two children in upstate New York. Her quest to cook the perfectly flavored cassoulet is ongoing.
CAMPAIGN DETAILS
- Publisher: Admiral Road Books
- Publication Date: September 1, 2026
- Genre: Historical Fiction, Gothic Suspense, Austenesque Fiction
- Instagram Book Tour: August 17 – September 14, 2026
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