This âmasterfully wovenâŠliterary home runâ (New York Journal of Books) follows four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family from the New York Times bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series.
Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their livesâand history as they know it.
Present Day: Julia Baxterâs wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells her that even the veilâs good luck isnât enough to make her marriage last forever. Overwhelmed, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head.
Meanwhile, her grandmother, Babs, is also feeling shaken. Still grieving the death of her beloved husband, she decides to move into a retirement community. Though she hopes itâs a new beginning, she does not expect to run into an old flame, dredging up the same complicated emotions she felt a lifetime ago.
1914: Socialite Edith Vanderbilt is struggling to manage the luxurious Biltmore Estate after the death of her cherished husband. With 250 rooms to oversee and an entire village dependent on her family to stay afloat, Edith is determined to uphold the Vanderbilt legacyâand prepare her free-spirited daughter Cornelia to inherit itâdespite her familyâs deteriorating financial situation. But Cornelia has dreams of her own, and as she explores more of the rapidly changing world around her, sheâs torn between upholding tradition and pursuing the exciting future that lies beyond Biltmoreâs gilded gates.
In the vein of Therese Anne Fowlerâs A Well-Behaved Woman and Jennifer Robsonâs The Gown, The Wedding Veil is âa sparkling, fast-paced joy of a book that celebrates love, family, and the right to shape oneâs own destinyâ (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).