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In four stories about special weddings, readers find out what happens when a Scottish nobleman awakens in a bridal shop, a con man is freed from prison with a wedding proposal, a time machine journey transports characters to Regency England, and a Celtic warrior claims to be the long-lost betrothed of a museum curator.

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In four stories about special weddings, readers find out what happens when a Scottish nobleman awakens in a bridal shop, a con man is freed from prison with a wedding proposal, a time machine journey transports characters to Regency England, and a Celtic warrior claims to be the long-lost betrothed of a museum curator.

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Jane Fergusson sat with her chin on her fists, stared at the surroundings of her minuscule cubby at Miss Petronia Witherspoon's Elegant Eighteenth Century Wedding Fashions, and contemplated the ironies of life. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Veils of Time - novel, Dec 14 2010

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Kit Dennis (St. Catharines, ON Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Veils Of Time (Mass Market Paperback)

The book is excellent - read it in a couple of days. They just never last long enough. The shipping from Amazon.ca was very fast this time. It came from Quebec to the NWT in a week. Excellent service all the way around.

Lyn Kurland is an excellent writer - her MacLeod/dePiaget series of books are always worth owning. I really do hope Ms. Kurland never totally stops writing this series. There are still lots of kids to explore and I'm sure there are yet more means by which to explore time and match people from the past and present.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Time Travel Stories, Jan 31 2003

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M. Rondeau (West Springfield, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Veils Of Time (Mass Market Paperback)

And the Groom Wore Tulle - Lynn Kurland -This short story follows Ian MacLeod from the Scottish Highlands dungeon of his arch enemy William Ferguson in 1313 to the backroom of a bridal boutique in New York city 1999. Ian MacLeod was thought to be dead and in disposing of his body, the knaves dropped him off in just the right forest that contained the portal to the future and his kinsman, Jamie MacLeod - only geographically he ended up thousands of miles off the mark but thankfully with a young woman who after her initial shock, took him in and would help him find his way home - somewhat the same way he would find his way into her heart. Fast, and amusing tale, highly entertaining. 4*

The Con and The Crusader - Maggie Shayne - This was a real cute story of a consummate con man, Jack McCain, about to be blown away by the mob, jumps into a well, and swears if he gets one last chance to mend his ways, he will 'work' as hard as he can for a living. Naturally, this is a 'time machine' well and he ends up 100 years in the past where 'hard work' is a way of life. He is picked up by the local sheriff and herded along with a prison work gang until the widow Hawkins, needing a handyman and not able to hire one, uses a little used rule where a woman could save a man from prison if he wanted to marry her. Well, getting married was not in this con man's agenda but it sure beats prison and before he new it his heart was captured! 3-1/2*

A Bride Most Common - Angie Ray - I really liked this one, where the time travel was planned with a unique way of transporting a person's consciousness into a person on the verge of dying in another time, namely Regency England. The plain, short, but quite intelligent Lucy Taylor was hurtled back into the beautiful but impoverished Lady Cynthia's body just as she was about to take her wedding vows! Not quite revived from the transformation, she found herself agreeing to be married. Now she had a month to build an antique radio, right a mistake that could change environmental hazards, and put off consummating a marriage to a perfectly handsome studmuffin that was her husband! 4*

Conyn's Bride - Ingrid Weaver - On the eve of her wedding, Alanna Moore, museum curator, slips on an old bracelet she is cataloging, and is trying to get some last minute details completed when the lights go out and out of nowhere appears this handsome hunk, dressed in little more than leather pants, and a cloak who calls her by name and knows everything there is to know about her. He is Conan ap Rhys and he is back to wed her. - This was a delight and thoroughly enjoyable. I loved the poetically sensual dialog Conan uses as he tries to convince Alanna of their past love. Great story. 5*

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good stories, Jun 15 2000

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J COFFMAN "Jackie" (Solihull, West Midlands, England.) - See all my reviews
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AND THE GROOM WORE TULLE BY Lynn Kurland is about Ian Mc'Cloud, cousin to Jamie. Having found himself in his enemy's dungeon waiting to die, Ian is transported 700 into the future. THE CON AND THE CRUSADER BY Maggie Shayne is about a con man who jumps down a well when he is being chased by some people who want to kill him. He promises to work as hard as he can if he can get away from them. After he jumps down the well he wakes to find himself in the past. A BRIDE MOST COMMON BY Angie Ray is about Lucy who is sent back in time by her empolyer and finds herself in the body of Cynthia Randal and about to be married to Kieran Walcott. She is sent back in time to correct a mistake that will have a devistating effect on the wildlife of the future. CONYN'S BRIDE BY Ingrid Weaver is about a man who has traveled hundreds of years in the future to find his long- lost bride. When he does find her she is about to marry another man. These four stories are all wonderfull if a little on the short side. They could all have been given there own book each. Well done.

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3.0 out of 5 stars One of these deserves 5*'s the rest are pretty average.
Veils of Time is similar to most anthologies. At least most that I've read. Two of the stories are painfully average, one is good with the final being outstanding. Read more

Published on May 4 2000 by BarkLessWagMore

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Time Travel anthology ever!
Okay I love everything Lynn Kurland has ever written, "And The Groom Wore Tulle" is no exception. Read more

Published on Aug 6 1999 by Leslie Tramposch