To Have and to Hold

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.)