Histria Books is pleased to announce the paperback release of Sophia and Cassius by Anna Canic. This novel is published by Histria Romance, an imprint of Histria Books dedicated to outstanding books in the romance genre.

Sophia and Cassius is a bold, genre-bending historical spiritual novel for readers who crave rebellious women, dangerous love, and faith put on trial. This is for fans of subversive biblical retellings, palace-intrigue dramas, and morally conflicted heroes who refuse to bow.

Here, the familiar myths of Eden and imperial Rome are turned inside out. The “fallen woman” becomes the one who says no. The emperor’s sister stops playing pawn and starts playing god. A hardened centurion finds himself caught in a forbidden pull between duty, desire, and a truth that could ruin them all.

Expect court politics, cults, and secret rites. Expect slow-burn tension where loyalty and attraction collide. Expect the “strong female character” to be truly dangerous, not just decorative.

Sophia and Cassius asks what it really means to be faithful when faith itself has been weaponized and survival demands a little heresy.

Praise for Sophia and Cassius: 

“Yearning spans centuries in Anna Canić’s bold feminist novel Sophia and Cassius, about a Lilith-inspired woman who is reborn to love a warrior… Steeped in ideals about love and justice, the provocative alternative history novel Sophia and Cassius explores a storied woman’s influence on the Roman Empire” —Karen Rigby, Foreword Magazine

Anna Canic (b. 1987, Odesa, Ukraine) is a multilingual translator, publicist, and author of Sophia and Cassius (originally published in Croatia). Described by JSTOR as a “multifaceted literary figure,” she has written articles, stage plays, reviews, poems, and song lyrics, and served as vice editor-in-chief of the Polish art and culture magazines Moja Przestrzeń Kultury and Dziennik Teatralny. Her work has appeared widely in European and American magazines and anthologies, and two of her dramas have been staged in Polish theatres. Fluent in six languages, she lives in Split, Croatia, with her family.

Sophia and Cassius by Anna Canic, 400 pp., ISBN 978-1-59211-667-6, is available at HistriaBooks.com and from all major book retailers. The book is also available as an eBook and a hardcover. Titles published under the imprints of Histria Books are distributed in the United States and Canada by Simon & Schuster and in the rest of the world through Unified Book Distribution.