alentine Roncalli, shoe designer for the family-owned, New York-based Angelini Shoe Company, is entering a rough patch.Her grandmother has found true love, uprooted herself, and moved to Italy, leaving the specialty shoe business to Valentine and her contentious financial whiz of a brother, Alfred.

Along with the care and handling of their large, loud Italian family.When a business venture brings Valentine to Buenos Aires to meet a distant cousin who also owns a shoe factory, shes in for a surprise: her cousin is black.Valentines great-grandfather had split with his brother, and nobody knew why until now.

The discovery of this long-buried secret stuns the entire family, who must now try to heal the breach.Family is family, after all.Trigianis exciting sequel to Very Valentine (2009), and the second book in a trilogy about Valentine and her family, is a vibrant, warm story about family ties, duty, and love.