Innocence and Trust Losts

A touching, heart rending, story of the tall, beautiful heroine, Stefania. The journey begins when she is eighteen years old in May of 1901 and arrives on the Fells Point Pier in America from Poland with a baby boy, Stanislaw. It is home to many Polish Americans and is booming with commerce. Its deep water docks are ideal for foreign trade. There is concern that the Baltimore City fire will reach these docks.. Also, there is a flashback into Stefania;s two prior years in Poland...
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A touching, heart rending, story of the tall, beautiful heroine, Stefania. The journey begins when she is eighteen years old in May of 1901 and arrives on the Fells Point Pier in America from Poland with a baby boy, Stanislaw. It is home to many Polish Americans and is booming with commerce. Its deep water docks are ideal for foreign trade. There is concern that the Baltimore City fire will reach these docks.. Also, there is a flashback into Stefania;s two prior years in Poland where there is great joy and sadness in her life with Kaiser Wilhelm, II's armies' raids on the vulnerable Poles. The author returns to her compelling story of her heroine's life in America, arousing all of your emotions of love and passion, joy and laughter, tragedy and sadness. Stefania's fear as a mother, as her only son enlists in the Navy in World War I, is exacerbated when she is unable to convince him otherwise. The heroine is strong, stoic, undaunted, and resolute in handling all the twists and turns life brings her way, facing them head on with her quiet tears, not allowing them to take away her peace and happiness. In the book you'll get to meet Jozef Kozlowski, a hard working stevedore, who deeply falls in love and has forbidden passions for the object of his love, adoring a woman who could never truly be his. You'll also get to know Stefania's neighbor, Mrs. Emma Norwicki, whose mind is twisted with evil thoughts that she acts upon from relentless hatred and envy of Stephania's great beauty. Then history seems to repeat itself in the lifestyle, dynamics, character, spiritual depth, romantic love and passion of her granddaughter, Gabriella Patrizi, who is like her. In meeting Gabriella, the author takes you to a Fashion Buyer's Party in New York City. At the party, Gabriella meets the handsome, Mike Callahan, who is a guest of his uncle who owns dress factories and hotels. Even though Mike is attending Hopkins in Baltimore, he's a New Yorker from a family of Investment Bankers.