Serendipity's Footsteps

Dalya is the daughter of a cobbler in Berlin, and though she is only 15, she knows she will follow in her father's footsteps. Then, one violent November night, she is forced into a concentration camp with her family, and must leave behind everything she knew and loved...including the single, gorgeous pair of shoes she was finally allowed to craft for herself.

Life as she knew it is over, but Dalya somehow finds her way to a new life in New York City. The Dalya of Before is gone, and she must now decide who the Dalya of After will become.

Meanwhile, her beloved shoes take their own journey to America. When they wind up in a small town second-hand shop, they enter the lives of Ray and Pinny, two modern-day orphans who couldn't be more different. Ray is jagged around the edges in every possible way, music her only escape. Pinny believes in the More in life...and she doesn't want the fact that she has Down Syndrome to stop her from living her dreams.

How these lives connect across different times and places, their touchstone a single pair of shoes, is an unforgettable journey--a story of strength, love, bravery, memory, and finally, the serendipity that binds us all together.