These Violent Delights

These Violent Delights is a historical and romantic fantasy novel by New Zealand author Chloe Gong. It is her debut novel. The opening installment of the duo-logy of the same name and overall first in the Secret Shanghai series, it reimagines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in 1920s Shanghai, the novel depicts star-crossed lovers Juliette Cai and Roma Montagov, heirs to rival gangs, and their efforts to create a cure for the disease that has plagued their city.