After a failed relationship and a botched teaching career, Valentine Roncalli apprentices with her Gram Angelini at the family business: the Angelini Shoe Company, which has been making wedding shoes since 1903. But the company isn't doing well, so Valentine and her Gram head for Italy in search of old techniques to give the store a new twist. This first in a trilogy is a journey of dreams fulfilled and a celebration of love and loss that is certain to leave readers eagerly awaiting the sequel.