The Shoemaker's Wife Book

Nestled high in the Italian Alps lies Vilminore home to Ciro a strapping mountain boy. Close by lives Enza a practical girl who longs only for a happy life for her family. When the two meet as teenagers it seems it could be the start of a life together...Then Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal and is sent to America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy leaving behind a bereft Enza. Her family faces disaster and she too is forced to flee to America with her father to secure their future. Unbeknownst to one another Ciro and Enza build lives in New York. Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job until fate reunites them. But too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in the war and Enza must learn to forge a life without him. From the mansions of New York's Upper East Side to the streets of Little Italy over the cliffs of northern Italy to the lakes of northern Minnesota these star-crossed lovers meet and separate until finally the power of their love changes both of their lives forever...Read More