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Emily Cannon is not the mail-order bride Luke Becker sent for, and certainly not the one he believes he wants. The tall, plain teacher has taken another’s place. She has come to Oregon with the veil and gown her sister was to have worn to marry Luke. But she has nowhere else to go and no other prospects. Widower Luke Becker needs a mother for his young daughter, and despite Emily’s deception, he hasn’t the heart to turn her away. He accepts her as his wife for the sake of his girl, but offers only his name and shelter to the proud, vulnerable stand-in. Yet each has lessons to learn from the other, lessons about love, understanding, and tenderness. Read more
Publisher : (February 26, 2010)
Publication date : February 26, 2010
Language : English
File size : 1030 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
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Emily, Luke, and Rose take you on a read that will pull your heart strings, bring tears to your eyes and you will feel it all. Emily on her way to meet and marry Luke in her sister's place after she passed. When she gets there and tells him what happend, will he take and make her his wife or will he send her on her way. Luke and Rose and his mother-in-law have been in a period of mourning for three years after they lost his wife. When he sets out to get a mail order bride to help with his daughter. After he meets Emily and finds out her story will he want to keep her or send her back home? This book was absolutely amazing. It has a little bit of everything and so much more. I loved how it is a slow burn, with a whole twist that you see coming. I am looking forward to reading for this author.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022 by cynthia
Alexis Harrington has a knack of writing about tortured souls, making them sympathetic and not pathetic. Her heroes and heroines are emotionally scarred but they don't whine or give up. In The Bridal Veil our heroine, a tall and plain looking woman, is the lone survivor of her little family. Her beloved younger sister, a dainty beauty, is killed in a carriage accident and around the same time our heroine loses her job as an etiquette teacher because the school closes due to money issues. Emma, our heroine, always was the sensible one and never expected to have a husband and children. Secretly, of course, she always had the same dreams as every other young girl which is why continues to keep her grandma's wedding dress and bridal veil. It appears, the veil, symbolizes love, family and happiness to her. After her sister dies, she makes likely her first spontaneous and flighty decision; her sister was set to leave for Oregon as a mail-order-bride to a young widower. Emma goes in her stead. Luke, our hero, had been a wild boy in his youth and "upstanding" families warned their daughters away from him and his brothers. They were outcasts of society and the brunt of stinging pranks, criticism and ridicule. Luke is taken in by a family and taught to run the farm and when the house burns down, the family decides to leave and return to their homeland, selling the land to Luke for a price he can afford. By what seemed to him like sheer luck, he gains the hand of the girl he had always admired and loved. Her family had always pushed her towards a young lawyer visiting from the city. But all did not turn out well, as the girl had a mother, a crude and nasty woman, who arranged their part of the world to her liking and she would have preferred the young lawyer as a son-in-law. She spreads malcontent and after one of her visits, the young couple again fights, more fiercely than usual and the young woman takes their daughter and leaves to go back to her mother. She is caught in a rainstorm and develops pneumonia and dies. Her mother moves in with Luke and his daughter. She bosses everyone around and continues to manipulate everyone around her. Luke does not really want to re-marry but believes he has to find someone better suited than his mother-in-law to raise his daughter. He is not thrilled when Emma arrives instead of her sister and is ready to send her home. After talking it over, they decide to have a marriage of convenience. Luke had never told Emma's sister that his late wife's mother lives with him and he does not tell Emma up front either. There are immediate clashes and home life becomes hell. However, Emma is able to connect with Rose, Luke's daughter, and that does not really sit well with grandma. As Luke begins to see that Emma is not as plain as he originally thought and sees how well and dignified she deals with his former mother-in-law, he finally steps in and tells her to leave his house. For a little while, life is happy. One night, Luke lets Emma in on a secret which only he and his mother-in-law know about. And the reader, if not Luke, immediately, knows watch out, grandma is going to use this. And she does. Of course, she twists it so that Luke believes Emma spread the news (especially as she had disagreed with his handle of said secret) and he rails at her, basically telling her he wants nothing to do with her anymore. Emma packs her bags and is ready to leave, when she sets out to do one final chore. That chore places her and Rose in jeopardy. By the time Luke realizes that his wife is missing, he is frantic. He has calmed on the spilled secret and now is fairly convinced that his ex-mother-in-law had lied. He goes off to find his wife and daughter. Now I could have done with a bit more groveling. Luke had been frightened and Emma realizes that but he did say some very nasty things and given that he had had an even longer exposure to the mother-in-law, his justification was somewhat shaky. This and my biggest pet peeve of romance novels, not having the villain punished or in case of regencies, punished by banishing him/her to the "Continent" or the country estate is simply not good enough for me. I am not sure what one could have done to the nasty older woman but hearing only that Rose wanted nothing to do with her for the time being, was not enough. Otherwise, I would have given it 5 Stars. Yes, there were some spelling mistakes and some grammar mistakes but they were few and the story was strong enough for me to notice them only in a vague manner.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2012 by angela longstaffe
A reviewer thought that the author had made Cora too bad, or evil. Unfortunately, I can attest that women like her do exist and descend into evil the more that they are appeased. Based on some of the reviews I thought that this might be the first Alexis Harrington book that would be less satisfying and was happy that worry was unfounded. The Bridal Veil will appeal to anyone who has been The Ugly Duckling whether it is from being too tall, too thin, or too chubby. I've learned in real life that you don't have to look like a fashion model to find a good, loving spouse who thinks that you are The Swan in every room, even when you get old and "pleasingly plump." Alexis Harrington has a real talent for creating characters that are so life-like that you think about them during the day and remember them after the book is finished. Hopefully, Alexis Harrington won't succumb to the temptation to write her books to promote her political views. It is difficult to find authors that can write either Romance or Mystery novels wherein you can learn something about the way that other people think but still have a Happy Ending. I listen to and read multiple sources of news and history every day, have a M.S. degree, and own a business. I read these types of books at night to seek solace in worlds created by talented authors wherein Goodness triumphs.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2020 by Kindle Customer
I loved the idea of the heroine being plain. So hard to find books where the heroine isn't stunning and perfect. Wish there was more of a reckoning with the mother-in-law. Feels like the ending was rushed and I wish there was more dialogue. Lots of thought life. Description was almost overkill and repetitive in places. I've noticed a lot of authors do not have a good chunk of interaction and dialogue. This was a good book. I believe I had read it years ago but for some reason it doesn't say in my account. Not sure if there was a name change.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2023 by Carole
I love this author and I love this book. This author does a great job of making you feel a part of this story. You see the scenery, you feel the emotion, you want the drama to work out and the characters come alive in her writing. You will certainly enjoy this book. The wrong person shows up to marry the farmer but for the sake of his daughter, he marries her anyway. I'm not going to spoil it for you because there is a mother-in-law situation and the amazing story of life on the western front. Also, Ms. Harrington, congrats on the cover of this book. It is lovely and makes it stand out among all your other books. I had to have it.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2014 by Marlene