Fate

"Before Romeo met Juliet, their families met in Verona. It wasn't love at first sight. Welcome to the CAPULET series-a sprawling six-part historical prequel, an epic tale of ambition, passion, sacrifice, and the brutal cost of revenge.

Long before the tragic love that defined a generation, the Capulet name was forged in the powder keg of 1434 France. Armand de Capulet and Ilaria Marchand are promised at birth. In a world of shifting power, their union becomes the flashpoint for a conflict forcing them to abandon innocence for the cold, calculated necessities of survival.

Their story is chronicled by Marcel Poquelin, a sharp-tongued, roguish musician who finds himself an unlikely shadow to their rise. Through Marcel's irreverent lens-complete with bawdy humor and cynical wit-you'll witness the sometimes elegant, sometimes dangerous climb of two innocents navigating a ruthless elite. Yet, their greatest enemy is fate itself. Gifted with terrifying, accurate premonitions, Ilaria is guided by mystics through a world of warnings. But as erupting events swirl, a final, catastrophic vision becomes lost. As they evolve from vibrant youth into adulthood, Armand, Ilaria, and Marcel must confront a brutal truth: the harder they fight to change their future, the tighter the grip of destiny becomes.

BOOK 1 - FATE. In 1434 Lyon, the stage is set for the rise of a new House of Capulet. As war with England looms, Armand and Ilaria are bound by duty and a French Kingdom sitting on a knife's edge. Marcel, scheming his own escape from their 'indolent' company, is instead pulled into the very heart of their struggle-unaware that the choices made in this fated moment in time will ignite a historical feud destined to echo through the centuries. Experience the beginning of the end of the Capulet line."