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Juliet, September 2010
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Ballantine
September 2010
On Sale: August 24, 2010
464 pages
ISBN: 0345516109
EAN: 9780345516107
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Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the
death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even
deeper when she learns that the woman who has been like a
mother to her has left her entire estate to Julie’s twin
sister. The only thing Julie receives is a key—one carried
by her mother on the day she herself died—to a
safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.
This key sends Julie on a journey that will change her life
forever—a journey into the troubled past of her ancestor
Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from the slaughter
of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled into Siena, where she
met a young man named Romeo. Their ill-fated love turned
medieval Siena upside-down and went on to inspire
generations of poets and artists, the story reaching its
pinnacle in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
But six centuries have a way of catching up to the present,
and Julie gradually begins to discover that here, in this
ancient city, the past and present are hard to tell apart.
The deeper she delves into the history of Romeo and
Giulietta, and the closer she gets to the treasure they
allegedly left behind, the greater the danger surrounding
her—superstitions, ancient hostilities, and personal
vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of
the families involved in the unforgettable blood feud, she
begins to fear that the notorious curse—“A plague on both
your houses!”—is still at work, and that she is destined to
be its next target. Only someone like Romeo, it seems, could
save her from this dreaded fate, but his story ended long
ago. Or did it?
From Anne Fortier comes a sweeping, beautifully written
novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a
young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably
tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest
star-crossed lovers.
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