This Thing of Ours

A former mob wife shares a candid account of her whirlwind marriage, the struggles she faced, and the redemptive power of faith.

A handsome Italian film producer and a beautiful Mexican dancer. A match made on a movie set and a lavish Beverly Hills wedding. Camille Franzese’s story begins like an exotic fairy tale. But a closer look at her marriage to mafia capo Michael Franzese exposes more than a decade of anguish endured in the shadows of her husband’s crimes.

The fear of arrest, the prison sentences, the house raids from federal agents—Camille lived through it all, not knowing whether her family would survive the turmoil and uncertainty that accompanied her husband’s life of crime. But Camille’s devotion to her marriage and her faith in God’s plan led her to deliverance from devastation. In This Thing of Ours, she recounts a remarkable story of choices, consequences, and the prayers that hold us up when everything around us is falling down.