When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.