West Side Love Story

Mariana Capuleta is an emergency room nurse with plans to enter a physician's assistant program, but her adoptive parents' money troubles come first. Together with her younger sisters she enters the Battle of the Mariachi Bands, a competition whose prize could steady the family and their beloved cultural center in a rapidly gentrifying San Antonio.

Standing in her way is the Montero family, her father's long-time rivals, whose band is fronted by Angelo Montero — the man Mariana shared an unforgettable New Year's Eve kiss with, before either of them knew the other's last name. The feud between their families is decades old and neither is willing to explain where it began.

Priscilla Oliveras reworks Romeo and Juliet as a contemporary romance about sisterhood, community, and the cost of loyalty to a grudge you did not choose. First in the Queens of Mariachi series.