It was a summer for coming of age .. .

Until that incredible summer, Rebecca Yates had led a sheltered existence, thanks to her loving but overprotective big brother.

Then she won the lead in a professional production of Romeo and Juliet, to be performed at Sausalito's beautiful outdoor amphitheater.

She was at once thrilled ...and terrified.

Thrilled to have a chance to prove herself as an actress, but terrified of her burgeoning love for Nick Corelli, her blazingly brilliant director, a self-confessed twentieth-century nomad....