by Stacey Jay
"The greatest love story ever told is a lie."
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."
—Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The most tragic love story in history . . .
Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.
- When She Woke, by Hillary Jordan (Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
- Ariel, by Grace Tiffany (William Shakespeare's The Tempest)
- Ophelia, by Lisa Klein (William Shakespeare's Hamlet)
- Othello: A Novel, by Julius Lester (William Shakespeare's Othello)
- Jekel Loves Hyde, by Beth Fantaskey (Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- Gemma Bovary, by Posy Simmonds (Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary)
- Android Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy & Ben H. Winters (Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina)
- The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde (Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)
- Dracula: The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
- Waiting for Odysseus, by Clamence McLaren (Homer's The Odyssey)
- Crazy Beautiful, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted ("Beauty and the Beast")
- Bound, by Donna Jo Napoli ("Cinderella")