A writer who craves a real-life happily ever after and a gruff fisherman who doesn’t believe in them find out they’re part of the greatest love story of all time. “Cleverly imagines the epilogue Romeo and Juliet didn’t get to have, and how curses can be blessings in disguise.”—JODI PICOULT A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR After a bad breakup, Helene Janssen runs away to Alaska to find some peace and quiet. She’s been dreaming up bits and pieces of a novel for years and hopes to finally have time to write it. On her first night there, Helene meets Sebastien Montague, a crab fisherman who looks exactly like the hero in the book she’s working on. But how is that even possible? Sebastien seems to recognize Helene, too, but he lies about it and brushes her off, even though their chemistry is immediate and undeniable. This is because their love story defies the ages: She is Juliet, reincarnated, and he is Romeo, lost in time. And if Helene can convince Sebastien to give her a chance, maybe this time they can rewrite their ending and find a true happily-ever-after. “ The Hundred Loves of Juliet is romantic, realistic, and fanciful—a love-for-all-times story. I couldn’t put this book down. I really wanted Helene and Sebastien to have a happy ending, and I’ll just say I was very surprised!” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of All the Days of Summer “Fresh, magical, and hopelessly romantic, Evelyn Skye’s The Hundred Loves of Juliet is a book for lovers. I was swept away. It’s an atmospheric, tug-at-your-heartstrings winner, showing us that true love never dies.” —Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Other Birds “A rare and charming retelling that asks the question: What if Romeo and Juliet had another chance? What if they had a hundred? The Hundred Loves of Juliet is a celebration of life as it comes and love as we find it.” —Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics “Beautifully spun and achingly romantic, this gorgeous reimagining is every bit as hopeful as it is haunting. I have never loved Romeo and Juliet more.” —M. A. Kuzniar, Sunday Times bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood “Evelyn Skye expertly crafts the story of Romeo and Juliet into a moving romance that explores what it means to love boldly in the face of tragedy and loss. Hopeful and triumphant, The Hundred Loves of Juliet is like a bright, warm sunbeam in the form of a book you’ll want to revisit again and again.” —Alyssa Wees, author of Nocturne Evelyn Skye is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Hundred Loves of Juliet and Damsel (which will soon be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright, and Angela Bassett). Skye is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter. Ħelene Alaska in January is a fairy tale, with frost-rimed branches glittering in the pale moonlight, like lace woven by a snow maiden. Icicles on rooftops twinkle like Christmas frozen in time, and I swear the spiraling snowflakes beckon to me as they fall. Fairy tale indeed. Or at least it’s a great first impression for my first evening here. At thirty years old and after too many uninspiring years as an assignment reporter in the Los Angeles bureau of The Wall Street Journal, I’m finally chasing my dream of writing a novel. An actual book of my own! Not just telling other people’s stories. I’ve been jotting down short stories ever since I was a teenager—bits and pieces of a novel—and now I finally have time to figure out how it all comes together. Truth be told, I need this. My recent past—hell, the last ten years—are best swept into a fire pit and doused with gasoline. The death of my two golden retrievers, one right after the other. My Pied Piper of a soon-to-be-ex-husband, who attracted interns and affairs like rats at cheese orgies. And my so-called best friend, who stole the promotion that was supposed to be mine. However, she unwittingly did me a favor. If I’d been promoted to columnist, I wouldn’t have left. If she’d been a true friend, I’d still be stuck in a nowhere life, married to a no-good husband. Instead, she betrayed me, and by doing so, she handed me the match I needed. I lit it and burned the past down, metaphorically speaking. Goodbye, old Helene Janssen. Hello, new and better me. My mom always says that everything happens for a reason, and I obstinately hold fast to that belief. So when I saw super cheap plane tickets to Alaska (tourists don’t usually visit here in early January) plus an “artist’s cottage” for rent in a quaint fishing town, I saw it as a sign that this was where I was supposed to go to begin work on my novel, and my future. And I think I was right. Being here in this winter wonderland is already helping me feel better about my odds going forward. I hum to myself as I lock the doo