About this ebook
Welcome to Verona Heights. On the west side of the harbour rises the Grand Capulet — twelve floors of marble and gold light. On the east side hums the Bluestone, the Montague family's brewery and music venues. Between them: a mile of water that has kept the feud alive for twenty years, and cut one city into two.
Juliet Capulet (17) — hotel heiress, perfect daughter — runs an anonymous poetry account, @thatwhichwecall, read by thousands who have never seen her face. Romeo Montague (19) — brewery heir, "the saddest boy on the eastern seaboard" — has read every post for three years. Neither of them knows who the other is.
Then her family throws a masquerade gala, he crashes it in a borrowed mask, and one dance in a column of gold light seals the fate of both families. One fire escape. One secret wedding. One knife under the overpass, one banishment, one desperate plan, one borrowed vial — and one message that arrives one minute too late.
Told through text messages, playlists, poetry posts, leaked footage, police transcripts, letters and the night-shift rideshare driver who saw everything, STAR-CROSSED is Romeo and Juliet retold for a new generation. The play is over four hundred years old. The heartbreak is brand new.
Perfect for readers of modern Shakespeare retellings, star-crossed forbidden romance, enemies-to-lovers YA contemporary, and stories about first love that was never supposed to happen.
Includes an author's note and book club discussion questions.
Content advisory: contains violence and depictions of death, including discussion of suicide. Recommended for ages 13+.
