Donated to the Lisbon Public Library. Library Journal: Most readers are familiar with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but not everyone knows that the Bard based his play on an old Italian tale in which the doomed lovers meet and die in the medieval city of Siena. Drawing on this tale, Fortier's historical debut features a plot as complicated as a Shakespearean play. When Julie's aunt dies, she is left with a key to a safe-deposit box in Siena, where her long-dead mother supposedly left a treasure, but finds only old letters and a ragged copy of Romeo and Juliet. She learns she is directly descended from one of the play's warring families, and her mother left clues to find "Juliet's Eyes," gemstones rumored to be embedded in a lost golden statue. As she draws closer to the treasure, she attracts the attention of a handsome beau descended from Romeo's family line as well as that of a group who make the Mafia look like choirboys. VERDICT While the publisher is comparing it to Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale and Sarah Dunant's The Birth of Venus, this entertaining historical thriller is more in line with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (but much better written!), with its hunt for clues to a secret.