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    Romeo and Juliana
    Romeo and Juliana
    Romeo and Juliana
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    Romeo and Juliana

    By Maggie Adams

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    UNCROSSING THE STARS

    Not in fair Verona but Queens, New York, Romeo Zimowski and Juliana Singh have found true love. Not quite at first sight, but at a party. As with Shakespeare's famous characters, trouble awaits: quarrelsome families, cultural divides, and a death. But the more things stay the same, the more things change. In the 21st century, the stars will align. Two determined young lovers can succeed. This time, love will win.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoroughs Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 12, 2016
    ISBN9781944262532
    Romeo and Juliana
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    Maggie Adams

    Maggie Adams is an internationally known contemporary romance author. Her first book in the Tempered Steel Series, Whistlin’ Dixie, debuted in Top 100 for Women’s Fiction, humor, on November 2014. Since then, she has consistently made the best seller 5-star list with her Tempered Steel Series.  She also writes erotica, paranormal romance, young adult romance and women’s fiction. Maggie’s books can be found on eBook and paperback on her website and all book sites. When she’s not writing, she can be found dancing, singing and cooking (usually all at the same time), and spending time with her family and friends. .

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      Romeo and Juliana - Maggie Adams

      UNCROSSING THE STARS

      Not in fair Verona but Queens, New York, Romeo Zimowski and Juliana Singh have found true love. Not quite at first sight, but at a party. As with Shakespeare's famous characters, trouble awaits: quarrelsome families, cultural divides, and a death. But the more things stay the same, the more things change. In the 21st century, the stars will align. Two determined young lovers can succeed. This time, love will win.

      ROMEO AND JULIANA

      Maggie Adams

      www.BOROUGHSPUBLISHINGGROUP.com

      PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, business establishments or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Boroughs Publishing Group does not have any control over and does not assume responsibility for author or third-party websites, blogs or critiques or their content.

      ROMEO AND JULIANA

      Copyright © 2016 Margaret Adams Birth

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. Unless specifically noted, no part of this publication may be reproduced, scanned, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Boroughs Publishing Group. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of Boroughs Publishing Group is illegal and punishable by law. Participation in the piracy of copyrighted materials violates the author’s rights.

      ISBN 978-1-944262-53-2

      E-book formatting by Maureen Cutajar

      www.gopublished.com

      For my parents, Philip and Mary Alice Blank.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Even though the author’s name is the one you see on the story, other people also play an important role in its creation. For Romeo and Juliana, those people include Michelle Klayman, my editor; Maria Ferrer and Jonathan Mangar, who provided a second set of eyes to help me double-check those parts of dialogue that I wrote in Spanish and Italian; my colleagues and friends in the northeast chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers, particularly Jenna Victoria (War of the Heart, Lovely Christian Romance Press, 2016), who has served as a sounding board throughout my work on the stories I’ve written for Boroughs; and my wonderful, loving, supportive family: my parents, Philip and Mary Alice Blank; my in-laws, Keith and Marian Birth; and above all, always, my husband, Kevin Birth, and our sons, Aidan and Brendan. I give them all my heartfelt thanks.

      CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Epilogue

      Excerpt: Bride at First Sight

      About the Author

      Also by Maggie Adams

      ROMEO AND JULIANA

      Chapter One

      Yo! my boss, Joe, yelled as he turned from the tray of seeded bread loaves he’d been loading into the front-window display case at our bakery. As he barreled out of the door, he screamed even louder, Yo, yo, yo, yo. Whadda youse punks think you’re doing? Hands off!

      I watched through the store’s large glass window as he grabbed a couple guys by their collars and separated them from the tangle of men. Scram, he hollered at the knot of skinheads who’d been fighting with the two dudes Joe had pulled out of the tussle. Beat it.

      I scurried away from the window and back behind the counter as Joe entered the bakery, pushing before him the two guys he’d plucked from the group. Don’t know what the world’s coming to these days, he muttered. Hooligans.

      Here. He shoved the young men toward the counter where my friend Danita and I were working. Show them where they can clean up. I gotta finish restocking the breads.

      "Thanks, Papi," one of them said as he turned to Joe.

      Yeah, thanks, Mr. Giordano, said the other, who was staring sheepishly at his feet, his dark hair falling over his face. Slowly, he lifted his head to look at me, and when his gaze met mine I saw the most striking chocolate brown eyes I believed I’d never see again. Romeo? I asked. Romeo Zimowski? Is that you?

      His brow knit in momentary confusion, but then his face broke into a big grin. Juliana? Juliana Singh?

      Yep. It’s me. I grinned back at him, the guy who, once upon a time, had been the love of my young life, although he’d never known it.

      OMG, Danita murmured into my ear on one side. That hottie is Romeo Zimowski all grown up?

      With an elbow to her ribs, I nonverbally messaged her to shut up, while at the same time I nonverbally messaged, Come hither, honey, to Romeo, flirtatiously lowering my eyelashes against my still-smiling cheeks.

      All right, all right, Joe gruffly broke into our renewal of acquaintance. I’m running a bakery here, not a speed-dating service.

      Danita and I grinned our apology to Joe then motioned Romeo and his companion to follow us into the kitchen, which contained a washroom off to one side.

      At Romeo’s insistence, the other guy—whose name he didn’t seem to know either—washed up first. With good reason, as it turned out. Both men had suffered cuts and bruises at the hands of the gang, but Romeo’s companion had been hurt the worst.

      What was that all about? Danita quizzed as she dabbed at the good-looking Latino’s injuries with a cotton swab dipped in iodine. Seems like you got yourself some trouble there, huh?

      I didn’t do nothing, he protested.

      "Well, you may not have done anything, she snapped in response, but they obviously felt like you were a target for some reason."

      "When is the last time you looked in the mirror, chiquita? That is, if you can see anything through those thick hairs over your eyeballs…"

      I tried, but didn’t completely succeed, to hold back snickering at the guy’s description of Danita’s false eyelashes. I loved my friend dearly, and she was even more beautiful inside than out, but she did seem to apply her makeup with a trowel. As for Danita, despite her snapping at him and correcting his grammar, I could tell that she was fighting off an insta-attraction.

      He really didn’t do anything to instigate their attack, Romeo said, at least not that I saw.

      I turned to him as I offered a tube of antibiotic ointment and a box of Band-Aids for him to treat his own injuries. You think he’s right, then? You think they attacked him just because he’s Latino?

      Romeo shrugged. All I know is I didn’t see any other reason for them to jump him.

      All four of us grew quiet and thoughtful. Of course, I couldn’t say what the others were thinking, but I was contemplating my own heritage: Latin American and Indo-Caribbean from my Colombian mother and my Trinidadian father, who, as had millions before them, met and married in this famous melting pot called New York City.

      The three of us were a mini U.N. with Romeo, such a handsome mingling of

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