To Die Upon a Kiss: A Gender-Swapped Retelling of Othello

By Debra Chapoton

SEVERAL TEENAGERS' LIVES INTERTWINE DURING ONE EVENTFUL WEEK FULL OF LOVE, BETRAYAL AND MURDER. TO DIE UPON A KISS is a futuristic, gender-swapped retelling of Shakespeare's Othello. Olivia Moore leads one of the federal government's youth hit-squads in the second half of the twenty-first century. After she secretly marries a Senator's son, a mutinous offense in the year 2063, she's sent to Los Angeles on a delicate assassination mission. Several states are seceding from the Union and California is next unless she can eliminate certain people. She takes along her multifarious teen team of cat-fighting, boyfriend-stealing girls and a couple of immigrant-chasing guys. Her rich, hot new husband, Devon (an innocent male version of Desdemona) tags along, but is fair game for a retaliation plot orchestrated by Cat (Iago with a Latina attitude). Olivia succumbs to Cat's constant insinuations about Devon's infidelity and hardens her heart to the truth. Will tragedy result as it did in Shakespeare's plot?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796959561
• ISBN13: 9781796959567
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"