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Harue and Fujishima are complete opposites with the same problem: they both work in fast-paced industries and have little time to date. But when they match with each other on a dating app, they take the time to get to know each other and soon, they're falling hard! Could this be their chance at a romantic connection and more?

When Caitlyn saw her lover, Lazzaro, it felt like her entire body was on fire. This was it. This was what she had been waiting for. She had met Lazzaro six weeks before. The second their hands touched, an electric current ran through them, and Caitlyn was sure it was fate. But that thrill seemed to have disappeared after that, so she was worried. What Caitlyn didn’t realize was that the mind-blowing kiss she had now was with Marco, Lazzaro’s twin brother and her true soul mate!

I suspect you might not be surprised to hear that this is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's play. It tries to go a bit closer to what little we know about the historical Macbeth, and also to give Lady Macbeth (Gruoch) a bit more of a role, but he broad strokes are still much as the play was, and it even includes some of the play's more famous lines. That last bit was a little odd to translate too. The author's foreword says that they used Victor Hugo's son's translation of the play as a source, and changed them round, but I found for the most part they were straight quotes. However it posed a bit of a problem in translation, I don't know how 'modern' that French translation would be compared to a contemporary French translation of the play, I don't know of a 'modernised' 1860s English version of the play and I certainly wouldn't want to try it myself, so I used mainly the original, but left the foreword in anyway.