"Four Weddings and a Veil"
The Wedding Veil
Genres: Women's Fiction Time Slip | Women's Fiction Southern
Posted: August 26, 2022
Four women, one veil, and four stories of strength, love, and finding yourself.
Julia's wedding day has finally arrived; she's dreamed of this moment since she was a little girl. Her family's wedding veil – gifted to them from a mysterious woman on a train, has been her family's good luck symbol for long happy marriages. But when someone sends her a video of her fiancé cheating on her, she panics. She flees her wedding, calls off the engagement and realizes she needs to learn how to stand on her own two feet.
Babs, Julia's beloved grandmother, needs to move on. She woke up one morning to discover her husband beside her – dead. Since then, she hasn't been able to breathe and she hates living in her house. Babs moves into a retirement community. There, she reconnects with an old flame. Could she have a second chance at love?
Edith's mother always told her that she would marry a prince and live in a castle. But her mother never mentioned that Edith would be getting married without her parents by her side. She does, however, have her family's wedding veil for comfort. Soon she will be a Vanderbilt – American royalty. While she doesn't live in a castle, Biltmore is the largest home in America. When her beloved husband dies, she must find a way to keep it running for his legacy, but also the sake of her daughter.
Cornelia Vanderbilt loves her home; she'll do anything to save it. She has to manage quite a bit over the years with a natural disaster, the Great War, and the stock market crash. Soon her legacy turns into an albatross. How can she discover her happiness?
These four women are tied together through history with traditions, love, and a wedding veil. But how did the Vanderbilt veil come to be in Julia's family? Their stories are intertwined and woven together from different moments in history. This stunning story ties four generations of women together sharing their love, their failures, their hopes, and their dreams. Carve out enough time to read this one, because once you start, you don't want to stop.
Book Summary
Present Day: Julia Baxter’s 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 veil’s good luck isn’t enough to make her marriage last forever. Overwhelmed and panicked, 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 out of the house they once shared and into a retirement community. Though she hopes it’s 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 untimely 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 legacy—and prepare her free-spirited daughter Cornelia to inherit it—in spite of her family’s deteriorating financial situation. But Cornelia has dreams of her own. Asheville, North Carolina has always been her safe haven away from the prying eyes of the press, but as she explores more of the rapidly changing world around her, she’s torn between upholding tradition and pursuing the exciting future that lies beyond Biltmore’s gilded gates.
In the vein of Therese Anne Fowler’s A Well-Behaved Woman and Jennifer Robson’s The Gown, The Wedding Veil brings to vivid life a group of remarkable women forging their own paths—and explores the mystery of a national heirloom lost to time.
Gallery Books
April 1, 2022
On Sale: March 29, 2022
Featuring: Julia Baxter
416 pages
ISBN: 1982180714
EAN: 9781982180713
Kindle: B09842KJMR
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook