When Valentine Roncalli discovers a long-lost shoe design, a family secret unravels that helps her take control of the company from a conniving relative, but first she seeks the counsel of her ex-fiancâe, Bret Fitzpatrick, to help re-boot the business.
Following up on the success of her bestseller VERY VALENTINE, Adriana Trigiani presents the second part of a proposed trilogy which continues the story of Valentine Roncalli, a sexy New York shoemaker, who is in Tuscany for her grandmother's wedding. While Valentine is thrilled for her grandmother, she is nervous about inheriting the renowned family business, especially when her condescending brother is brought on board to manage the finances. As Valentine struggles to modernize and expand her family's business, her long-distance romance with Italian hunk Gianluca gets pushed to the back burner, even as he tries to turn up the heat with a series of steamy letters. Meanwhile, her enterprising brother falls for a married woman, and brings in Valentine's ex-fiancé to help run things, stirring up a lot of trouble for Trigiani to resolve in the future conclusion of the series.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres, Romance
- Subgenre: Love + Relationships + Sex, Work + the Workplace, Peoples + Cultures, Literary, General, Contemporary, Types of Characters
- Publisher: Harperluxe
- Pages: 486
- Edition: Larger Print
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: February 9, 2010
- Date Published: February 9, 2010
- Author: Adriana Trigiani