![]() A secret connection that will change their lives-and history as they know it. The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series brings “her signature wit, charm, and heart” ( Woman’s World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family.įour women. ![]() Alternating between a romantic comedy feel in the present day with a historical fictionalized peek into an intriguing family’s North Carolina estate, THE WEDDING VEIL revolves the characters in both time frames around one shared sacred object. We follow them through the years as Cornelia’s sense of duty to maintain the home-and legacy-conflicts with her yearning to build a life outside it. In a parallel story line, in 1914, Edith Vanderbilt, following the death of her husband, is struggling to maintain the beautiful Biltmore Estate, with her daughter, Cornelia. Later, she and her grandmother, Babs, work to uncover the history of the veil. Despite the luck that the veil should bring Julia, she decides to flee to the Virgin Islands alone, for what was to have been her honeymoon. She is adorned with her great-grandmother’s wedding veil, which was bequeathed to her by a mysterious woman on a train. In present day, it’s Julia’s wedding day in North Carolina. ![]() One legendary wedding veil ties four women together across generations. ![]()
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