This Barnes & Noble exclusive paperback edition includes an alternate cover, a special art print, and a bonus series of flashback vignettes featuring Roma and Juliette!
An Instant
New York Times
Bestseller!
A
BuzzFeed
Best Young Adult Book of 2020
Perfect for fans of
The Last Magician
and
Serpent & Dove
, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative
Romeo and Juliet
retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.
The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.
A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love...and first betrayal.
But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.
This paperback edition of
These Violent Delights
contains never-before-seen content!