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Bridal Veil
Bridal Veil
Bridal Veil
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Bridal Veil

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Charly Ellington should be proud to wear her great-great-great-grandmothers wedding dress. Instead, the bodice is too tight, the skirt is too loose, and the dress comes with a century of expectations attached to it. As the daughter of the democratic presidential nominee, Charly is marrying Americas most eligible future senator to help her father get elected. But there is only one problem: Charly does not love Trenton Foxworth III. Worse yet, Charly wishes she was the one running for office.

Even though Charly knows she is the first to break the family history of fairy-tale love matches, she dutifully dons a period costume and prepares for her rehearsal dinner and her new life as a senators wife. But after a distressed Charly suddenly sees her great-great-great grandmothers reflection in her mirror, she touches the glass and falls through to face Charlotte Foster in the year 1885. Shockingly, Charly discovers Charlotte is not living the fairy tale she knows so well. Now in a different time and place, Charly must try to set her family history rightall while one man finally shows her what it is like to be loved for who she is, not her political connections.

In this historical romance, a woman who finds herself on a voyage of self-discovery learns what love can be while facing a decision with the potential to change her destiny forever.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateJul 11, 2014
ISBN9781491735558
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    There's a lot to love in this story of a tall, plain finishing school teacher who goes west as a mail-order bride for an Oregon farmer. Emily is a compelling mix of insecurity and strength. She recognizes that she's no beauty while at the same time holds her head up and demands people treat her with respect. Though initially relctant to marry her, Luke can't help becoming her champion, and in the process of defending her from his vicious mother-in-law he finds the strength to fight his way out of the corner he'd been pinned in since his first wife had died. Luke and Emily form a team where each shores up the other, and it was lovely to watch their love bloom slowly through lots of small actions and little conversations.

    Unfortunately, the secondary characters dragged this one down for me. Luke's 11 year old daughter Rose plays a pivotal role, and that went the way most child characters tend to in romance. She begins the book a sullen, bratty, child prone to attention-grabbing stunts like petty thievery. One or two heartfelt talks with Emily later, and that's history. Despite her father remarrying, her grandmother using her as a pawn in a war with her father, and a number of domestic upheavals, she doesn't act out again. Considering that an 11 year old in a perfectly stable home will still act out just to remind you they're present, Rose's character arc didn't ring true to me. She wasn't a person so much as a prop. She was there to make initially cold and gruff Luke look like a softie, to add tension as a pawn in Luke's mother-in-law's mind games, and to make Emily look like a hyper-competent stepmom. It lacked subtlety.

    Throw in some over-explanatory prose, some frustrating loose ends, and a fairly pointless epilogue, and what could've been a great story of two people finding a love they never expected to have becomes a merely ok read. It's perfectly entertaining and had me a bit choked up in parts, but it wasn't Harrington's best.

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