What is the title of your latest release?
THE LAST LADY B
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Bridgerton meets The White Lotus. My heroine goes to a haunted Scottish abbey where her elderly husband’s first three wives died. Not to worry: this isn’t a gruesome or terrifying gothic, and my hero is delicious—but I did have fun with a ghost!
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
A spooky Scottish abbey is perfect for a Gothic-esque novel
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
Absolutely! Evie is plucky, funny, and sweet—though I’d never play her at cards!
What are three words that describe your hero?
Brilliant, protective, ethical. Must add: gorgeous!
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
My heroine rescues a piglet, Peony, from being sent to the butcher. I had to do a load of research on baby pigs, even though very little of it shows up on the page!
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I go.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Chocolate-covered marshmallows
Describe your writing space/office!
I’m answering these questions from Florence, where I don’t have a desk! I’m sitting on a big squishy sofa, and I can see spring flowers out in the window in our garden.
Who is an author you admire?
There are so many! Right now my daughter and I are watching Bridgerton’s new season and loving it — I’ve learned so much from Julia Quinn over many years of friendship and admiration.
Is there a book that changed your life?
I suppose I CONQUERED THE CASTLE, written by Dodie Smith, who also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians. It was my first “adult” romance.
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
When my agent called, I wasn’t too startled because that first book, POTENT PLEASURES, was the subject of an auction between publishers. But she said I had to write two more books to complete the contract. WHAT? That freaked me out. But thirty-plus novels later, here I am.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Romance, hands down.
What’s your favorite movie?
I don’t have one. Basically, I love anything with romance and great clothing but I don’t rewatch movies (reread novels? All the time)
What is your favorite season?
Spring.
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
Dinner out with my husband!
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Bridgerton Season 4. Not only is the underlying trope—Cinderella—fantastic, but the costumes are exceptional this year.
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Japanese
What do you do when you have free time?
Read
What can readers expect from you next?
I’m just finishing a second gothic novel, also set in Scotland, and currently titled THE ONLY MISS C.
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.
Romance Historical [ Gallery Books, On Sale: May 12, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781668200056 / eISBN: 9781668200063 ]
New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.
After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report.
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