A woman fleeing her disastrous marriage discovers that she is part of
a legendary love story that spans lives, years, and continents in this
modern-day reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.
"Cleverly imagines the epilogue Romeo and Juliet didn't get to have,
and how curses can be blessings in disguise."--JODI PICOULT
When Helene was young, she dreamed of the perfect man and filled her
notebooks with stories about him and about love in its purest form. But
after a messy divorce, she has let go of such naive fantasies. She has
moved to a small town in Alaska, where she is ready to write her novel
and build a new life without romance. Fate has other plans, though.
Helene soon meets Sebastien Montague, a handsome fisherman who is her
invented hero made flesh, down to the most idiosyncratic details. But
how can a man she created possibly exist in the real world?
While Helene tries to discover the truth behind his existence, Sebastien
is determined to keep that truth from her, for he is a man scarred by
serial tragedy, hiding a secret that has broken his heart time and
again. Yet the shadows of the past emerge, endangering Helene and
Sebastien's future before it even begins--and it becomes clear that it
won't be easy to forge a new ending to the greatest love story of all
time.
