These Violent Delights Duet
In 1920s Shanghai, two rival gangs, the Scarlet Gang and the White Flowers, are locked in a blood feud. Juliette Cai, a former flapper and heir to the Scarlet Gang, returns from America to reclaim her place. Roma Montagov, heir to the White Flowers, is her first love and greatest enemy. As a mysterious contagion sweeps through the city, both must put aside their differences to save their people, even if it means confronting their complicated past.
The first book in the duet concludes with significant unresolved plot points and character fates, directly leading into the sequel, Our Violent Ends.
This book is the first part of a duology and should be read before its direct sequel, Our Violent Ends, to follow the complete narrative arc.
The story is a reimagining of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, transplanting the feuding families and star-crossed lovers into 1920s Shanghai amidst gang warfare and a mysterious epidemic.
