El seu nom vertader és Giulietta Tolomei, i és una descendent dels Tolomei i dels Salimbeni, les famílies reals que van viure a la Siena medieval i que van inspirar Shakespeare per escriure Romeu i Julieta. La Juliet i la seva germana són òrfenes des de petites i s'han criat amb la seva tieta, però quan la tieta Rose mor, la Juliet rep una estranya herència: un passaport, una clau i un secret. Fortier navigates around false clues and twists, resulting in a dense, heavily plotted love story that reads like a Da Vinci Code for the smart modern woman. Readers enjoy the additional benefit of antique texts alternating with contemporary narratives, written in the language of modern romance and enlivened by brisk storytelling. To understand what happened centuries ago, in the previous generation, and all around her, Julie relies on relics: a painting, a journal, a dagger, a ring. Julie's unraveling of the past is assisted by a Felliniesque contessa and the contessa's handsome nephew, and complicated by mobsters, police, and a mysterious motorcyclist.
Julie's hunt leads her to the families' descendants, still living in Siena, still feuding, and still struggling under the curse of the friar who wished a plague on both their houses.
Fortier bobs and weaves between Shakespearean tragedy and popular romance for a high-flying debut in which American Julie Jacobs travels to Siena in search of her Italian heritage-and possibly an inheritance-only to discover she is descended from 14th-century Giulietta Tomei, whose love for Romeo defied their feuding families and inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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