Publisher's Weekly Review
Award-winning authors Peterson and Miller team up for a new historical romance series, Bridal Veil Island. It's August 1886, and unmarried 28-year-old Audrey Cunningham discovers from her widowed father, Boyd Cunningham, that they are in financial trouble. Having recently moved back South to their homeland on "the Island," Boyd tells his daughter their situation is anything but promising. Audrey rehashes her life, her father's drinking, her mother's untimely death, and the loneliness she experienced from both. The two determine to save the family's land somehow and, working together, it appears they will be successful. Add to the mix two suitors who begin courting Audrey in their own unique ways; mysterious trouble on the island; and her father's ailing health. Audrey is forced to face her tendency to mistrust people and God. Amid comedy, romance, and faith concerns, Peterson and Miller do a tidy job of handling multilayered themes in this lighthearted novel. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Fan favorites Peterson and Miller team up again to tell the story of Audrey Cunningham, who, against her wishes, moves with her father from Pittsburgh to Bridal Veil Island, Georgia. Soon plans are developed for a luxurious resort community. Audrey's father owes a great deal of money in property taxes, so he agrees to oversee the project and open their home as a boardinghouse for the workers. Aunt Thora, sassy and still dead set against Yankees more than 20 years after the war's end, grudgingly helps Audrey manage the house. Not only must Audrey care for the boarders. She must also deal with her father's failing health. When construction doesn't go according to plan, Marshall Graham, the project manager, must get to the bottom of the trouble. As he struggles with his work, he also struggles with romantic feelings for Audrey, despite clashing with Audrey's headstrong and suspicious nature. As usual, the award-winning coauthors blend history, romance, and faith in an exciting story.--Richard, Carolyn Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In 1886, Audrey Cunningham seizes upon an opportunity to bring her father back to his roots in hopes that he will stop drinking and find a connection with God. She moves with him to his childhood home on Bridal Veil Island. Once there, they discover that investors are hell bent on purchasing his land in order to build a mammoth resort. Her father contacts Marshall Graham, a contractor who is the son of a former drinking buddy. Audrey is openly hostile to him, and he doesn't much like her either, but when she becomes romantically interested in a widower with two daughters, Marshall realizes that he likes the independent Audrey a lot more than he originally thought. VERDICT Peterson ("Brides of Gallatin" and "Song of Alaska" series) is a household name among CF readers, and that alone should necessitate purchase. Her popularity aside, this is a fine start to a new series by the coauthors of the "Broadmoor Legacy" series. Its unconventional heroine and historic backdrop should appeal to fans of Miller's other works. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
