Janice, naturally, thinks this is amusing. Julie gets nothing more than a handwritten letter from Aunt Rose, telling her to return home to Italy. Although Julie expects to receive half of Rose’s estate, Rose leaves her estate in its entirety to Janice. Everything falls apart for Julie when Rose dies. All they have in common is their aunt Rose, who raised them since childhood after their parents died in a suspicious accident. Juliet wishes that she had a better relationship with Janice, but she knows that is impossible. Her twin sister, Janice, is cruel and conniving. Protagonist Julie Jacobs is a quiet and mannerly twenty-five-year-old Italian woman. Before moving to the U.S., she spent two semesters at Oxford University’s Corpus Christi College as an Associate Graduate Member. A Danish writer, Fortier graduated from Aarhus University in Denmark with a Ph.D. The book received nominations for various awards and it is an international New York Times bestseller. Anne Fortier’s debut novel, the historical romance Juliet (2010), concerns a young woman who discovers that she is descended from Romeo’s Juliet, and if she doesn’t uncover the truth about Juliet’s life, the same curse that killed the lovers will end her, too.
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