This book has four short stories revolving around a magical wedding dress. The stories start with a prelude by Catherine Anderson, telling about the beginning of the magical dress. Then ....
A PERFECT FIT, Barbara Metzger. This story takes place in Devon, England in 1813. Katie was proud of the wedding gown that she was to wear but fate intervened and her intended was killed mere days before the wedding. Because Katie was already expecting, she retired to a small hamlet and raised her daughter by teaching music lessons and selling foods from her garden and milk cows.
Now, Suzannah, Katie's daughter is getting ready to marry an aristocrat and the young man's guardian uncle has come to evaluate the worthiness of Suzannah for himself. Katie's carefully planned life starts to unravel.
GLAD RAGS, Connie Brockway. The wedding dress reappears at a party outside of London in 1856. Hugh St. James wants revenge for his sister, Lucy, and poses an impossible wager. Alexander Thorpe and Lucy had been an item two years before and then Alexander dropped Lucy and went off to war.
The wager causes Alex and Lucy to be in each other's company again and sparks start to sizzle.
SOMETHING SPECIAL, Casey Claybourne. Eleven-year-old Eliza Cooper orders her own governess from Boston to Seattle. This story is too outlandish to ring true.
BEAUTIFUL GIFTS, Catherine Anderson. This novella belongs with the Keegan-Paxton series. It is the story of Patrick O' Shannessey and Faith Maxwell. After seeing Patrick's problems with a whiskey bottle in the first book (of the Keegan-Paxton series), it is nice to see that he has straightened up and created a life for himself.
Since Caitlin has not had her first child yet (at the time of this story), I would place this novella after the first book (see series below).
Keegan-Paxton Family
1. Keegan's Lady (1996)
1.5 Beautiful Gifts (in THE TRUE LOVE WEDDING DRESS anthology)
2. Summer Breeze (2006)
3. Early Dawn (2009)
4. Lucky Penny (2012)
Faith Maxwell has run away from New York (with her small daughter), rather than marry an old man of her father's choosing. They end up in No Name, Colorado with only a penny to spare. Faith looks for work and finds an old notice for a housekeeper on the O'Shannessey ranch.
Overall, I'm sorry I wasted the money on the book. It was barely average. The only bright spot was seeing what happened to Patrick O'Shannessey from the series mentioned above.
A PERFECT FIT, Barbara Metzger. This story takes place in Devon, England in 1813. Katie was proud of the wedding gown that she was to wear but fate intervened and her intended was killed mere days before the wedding. Because Katie was already expecting, she retired to a small hamlet and raised her daughter by teaching music lessons and selling foods from her garden and milk cows.
Now, Suzannah, Katie's daughter is getting ready to marry an aristocrat and the young man's guardian uncle has come to evaluate the worthiness of Suzannah for himself. Katie's carefully planned life starts to unravel.
GLAD RAGS, Connie Brockway. The wedding dress reappears at a party outside of London in 1856. Hugh St. James wants revenge for his sister, Lucy, and poses an impossible wager. Alexander Thorpe and Lucy had been an item two years before and then Alexander dropped Lucy and went off to war.
The wager causes Alex and Lucy to be in each other's company again and sparks start to sizzle.
SOMETHING SPECIAL, Casey Claybourne. Eleven-year-old Eliza Cooper orders her own governess from Boston to Seattle. This story is too outlandish to ring true.
BEAUTIFUL GIFTS, Catherine Anderson. This novella belongs with the Keegan-Paxton series. It is the story of Patrick O' Shannessey and Faith Maxwell. After seeing Patrick's problems with a whiskey bottle in the first book (of the Keegan-Paxton series), it is nice to see that he has straightened up and created a life for himself.
Since Caitlin has not had her first child yet (at the time of this story), I would place this novella after the first book (see series below).
Keegan-Paxton Family
1. Keegan's Lady (1996)
1.5 Beautiful Gifts (in THE TRUE LOVE WEDDING DRESS anthology)
2. Summer Breeze (2006)
3. Early Dawn (2009)
4. Lucky Penny (2012)
Faith Maxwell has run away from New York (with her small daughter), rather than marry an old man of her father's choosing. They end up in No Name, Colorado with only a penny to spare. Faith looks for work and finds an old notice for a housekeeper on the O'Shannessey ranch.
Overall, I'm sorry I wasted the money on the book. It was barely average. The only bright spot was seeing what happened to Patrick O'Shannessey from the series mentioned above.
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