Dantès, Romeo and Juliet

By Edo Cruz

When an antiquarian in Verona discovers a safe sealed for more than a century in the bowels of the old Hotel Capuleto, he unearths far more than yellowed documents and forgotten cigars. He exhumes the most incandescent and most secret love story ever lived in the world of premium tobacco, that of Jos "Pep n" Rodr guez, legendary founder of the Romeo y Julieta brand, and Giuliana Rossini, a Veronese woman who turned smoke into the only bridge capable of linking two lovers whom everything conspired to separate.
Summoned from Havana to decipher letters signed with a mysterious code, Dant s Cruz, the Cenizologist, the man who reads ashes the way others read books, plunges into a tale where every wisp of smoke carries a love letter and every Havana cigar lit is a prayer sent across the oceans.
Blending historical fiction with cigar philosophy, Edo Cruz weaves a spellbinding novel in which passion needs neither kisses nor caresses but only two facing balconies and a cloud of tobacco suspended in the Veronese night. A vibrant ode to impermanence, to love that burns without ever dying, and to the memory that only ash knows how to keep.
For lovers of Havana cigars, Shakespearean dreamers, and all who believe that smoke, like love, always finds the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTGQ59QW
• ISBN13: 9798253073391
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.0"