What if Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after?
«My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathèd enemy».
Romeo y Julieta (Act 1, Scene 5) —William Shakespeare
Salem Caplan should have been happy that his sister Julie was living her dream college life with Roman Montgomery, immune to the rivalry that had always pitted their families against each other. Julie and Roman had left all that behind. Everything. Even their siblings, Salem Caplan and Beckett Montgomery, and their parents, who, humiliated by their eldest children’s relationship, hated each other more than ever. Salem doesn’t know what else to do to make them happy: he’s on the soccer team, the debate team, he gets the best grades… but nothing is enough. Maybe if he’s elected student council president, his parents’ mood will improve…
But who else is running for election? Of course: Beckett Montgomery. And to make matters worse, in addition to being his neighbor and rival, Montgomery is the best friend of Cruz, with whom Salem is secretly and deeply in love. Why does the cosmos keep putting that damn Beckett Montgomery in her path?