Julie and Romeo/Jeanne Ray/227 pages

This is an updated version of Romeo and Juliet set in a suburb of Boston and involving two rival florists who are quite a bit older than any traditional retelling of the story. Their families hate each other, of course, but no one knows how it all started. Julie and Romeo had their own reason to hate one another when they had to stop their teenaged daughter and son from eloping while in high school, but both of them have moved on. Romeo's elderly mother and most of their children have not. Their relationship comes to a head when Julie's ex-husband comes to town to straighten out his ex-wife and tell her how to live her life.