This is the second novel in Nino Ricci's Vittorio Innocente trilogy, following the award-winning The Book of Saints . As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocente arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both magical and forbidding.
This book is part of the Lives Of The Saints Books series and is book #2 in the series.