The Thousand Deaths of Romeo and Juliet

In this genre-bending reimagining of Romeo and Juliet for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue and The Ministry of Time, the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers are trapped in a timeless loop, cursed to live, love, and die again and again, unless they can break the cycle. Juliet has loved and lost Romeo a thousand times. Across centuries, through war and ruin, their souls find each other — only to be torn apart again. Their love is inescapable, but so is the shadow that haunts them. Mercutio’s dying words, “a plague on both your houses,” sealed a curse which has doomed Romeo and Juliet — along with everyone they know and love — to return one lifetime after another. Hurtling through time and space, from World Wars in Europe to Guyana’s Jonestown, they are followed by old wounds, unfinished vengeance and the promise of an inexorable past. With every tortured life and death, Juliet slowly begins to unravel the truth behind their endless cycle, and in doing so must face an impossible question: is love strong enough to break the curse, or are they all doomed to repeat history forever? A sweeping, time-bending reimagining of Shakespeare’s greatest lovers, The Thousand Deaths of Romeo and Juliet is an epic love story of passion, destiny, and the ghosts that refuse to let us go.