Product Description: These warm, insightful tales reveal the singular joys and challenges of moving from a city to a rural town and will resonate with anyone who dreams of downsizing and picking up to live alongside a lake and its denizens. Each chapter captures the nature of the North Shore and the ways in which everything and everyone is shaped by the Big Lake...read more

A true story of spiritual and human desire is revealed through the forbidden love between Beryl Bissell, a New Jersey nun who entered the convent at age eighteen with the belief that God had called her to his way of life, and a handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio, who would become her secret love.