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Two Wedding Veil Wishes novels, together for the first time in print!

Legend claims this antique Irish wedding veil can grant your heart's deepest desire. But be careful what you wish for . . .

ADDICTED TO LOVE

Growing up in Valentine, Texas, can make anyone believe in happily ever after. Anyone except Rachael Henderson. After having not one but two grooms ditch her at the altar, Rachael commits an uncharacteristic act of rebellion-and gets arrested by sexy Sheriff Brody Carlton, her childhood crush. Rachael's sworn off of love . . . but now she's fantasizing about Brody. Can it be possible to have her wedding cake and eat it too?

ALL OF ME

When a searing betrayal leaves Jillian Samuels heartbroken and wishing for a fresh start, her newly inherited cottage in Salvation, Colorado, seems like the perfect place to find it. It has a fireplace, a mountain view-and the most gorgeous and infuriating man she's ever met already living inside! Tuck Manning won't give up his home without a fight, so until they can untangle who owns the cottage, the two resolve to live as roommates. But as the days-and nights-heat up, they find that sometimes salvation comes when you least expect it . . .

768 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

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Lori Wilde

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Lori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write.

She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze.

Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone.

She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.

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December 7, 2025
Well written, and a good story

I read the last two without reading the first 4. Six would have been a little much. But damaged people finding one another and love was a good, fast read. A little heat but more of a good story with seeing them fall in love over time. Nice and edited and well written.
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3,235 reviews19 followers
January 6, 2014
Happily Ever After
If you are looking for a really good book to read this is it. In fact I have read them twice now. Rachael Henderson was born and raised in Valentine, Texas. If your mind jumped to the holiday then yes you’re right on track. Only this town and it people engulf the whole love, romance, and happily ever after like Valentine’s Day on steroids.
You see Rachael was sold the myth that someday her knight in shiny armor would come and whisk her away and they would live as one. So, far though all it ever got her was heart ache, being left at the altar twice and pitted against the town’s people now. And it all started with Sheriff Brody Carlton.
Brody is a war hero and he used to live in Valentine but moved when he was like 12 which broke Rachael’s heart. Ever since she was five she had been in love with him. In fact on Valentine’s Day she made him a card and took it to him while he was playing basketball with his friends. He just looked at it while his friend’s made fun and ripped it up in tiny pieces.
Now he was back in town really? When she was at her worst and breaking the law could he pick a better time? It has to be done this billboard is lying to every little girl. It’s giving them false hopes and dreams that marriage is the answer. Rachael was done with her fantasy world. This will be their cute meet but neither one knows it yet because they don’t know who each other is yet.
Once the mayor said who each of them were Brody’s hit with memories of Rachael rushing back in little snippets. First, of her being the cutest little pest who followed him around all the time. Then, of how cute she looked in her pigtails and of them hanging out together, how she always made him feel good and important.
What are they each looking for now is it friendship, booty calls, or love? Read to see who wants more than a booty call. See who’s scared of love but is friendship enough? There did seem to be some parts that dragged where there was too much outside stuff and not the characters of the story themselves talking to each other. Just in their heads otherwise I totally enjoyed it.

ALL OF ME

Sometimes it takes a total shake up of our lives to see we are headed in the wrong direction. In this case Jillian Samuels had gone
to work for the D.A.’s office straight out of law school. Blake her mentor brought her in. He was her rock and father figure.
Especially, since she didn’t come from a great back ground no family except her dear friends Delaney, Tish, and Rachael and of course Blake, an old professor she heard speak and then kept in touch with. He was her father figure and she was the daughter he had no relationship with after his marriage broke up.
On a bad day at court (no she didn’t lose she won which was worse.) Why you ask? Because it meant nothing and she felt not one thing. That scared the crap out of her. So, she went to seek out Blake but when she arrived at his office she received the shock of her life Blake had died of a brain tumor that morning, one he knew he had and didn’t share with her. The hurt she felt from that was more then she could share. Then, as if the week was not bad enough, the one man she let her defenses down with and let a man into her heart it turns out he is a lying, cheating bastard. Why you ask? He started dating her without telling her that one little thing that matters most to Jillian, He’s Married! Plus, he is the one who is going to take over Blake’s job as D.A. and as her boss. Of which he wasted no time to call her in his office and expected her to take up the affair, so she quit.
Then she remembers the wishes the girls made on the wedding veil Delaney, wished to get out of marrying the wrong man and she did marrying her soul mate, Nick Vinetti.
Tish, wished to get out of debt which brought her back together with her husband she lost and never stopped loving.
Rachael, wished to stop being so romantic, she did, ended up marrying the hero of her dreams.
Jillian, didn’t believe in dreams. Saying it was a load of crap. But, she’d lost everything else the veil was all the hope she had left. She wished, “I wish I’d been born into a loving, trusting, giving family. I wish…I wish…I wish…I wish I had a brand new life.”
Jillian’s whole life is about to change. A new man will be entering it, Tucker Manning. Will she allow herself to trust him? Will he allow himself to open up to Jillian? Life has been hard for Tuck the last few years. His heart has suffered a major blow. Can he love again? Can Jillian truly love for the first time in her life, a toe curling love? “Do You Believe In Magic?”
I really enjoyed this story. It had some really funny parts but it also had some really gut wrenching parts too. When I read this the first time I gave it a five star and I would not change it but I was made at the ending but this time around the part before the epilogue is where the truth comes in and I missed what was really being said. So watch for it.
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December 12, 2013
Lori Wilde's Happily Ever After is a must-read collection of her fun, sexy, & romantic Wedding Veil Wishes series

I LOVE a romance that's sprinkled with just a touch of magic - and that's what the four books in Lori Wilde's Wedding Veil Wishes series provides. A 300-year-old magical veil reveals the bride-to-be's true love if worn before a mirror with an open mind and a wish from the heart. I loved each and every story in this series as when I turned the final page, I just had that warm glowing feeling you receive when hope and love is nurtured.

Now you can easily collect all four novels as the Forever (Grand Central Publishing) offers them in two volumes. The first is Kiss the Bride: There Goes the Bride/Once Smitten, Twice Shy (Wedding Veil Wishes 1 & 2) and is available now. The second, Happily Ever After: Addicted to Love/All of Me (Wedding Veil Wishes 3 & 4), will be released on 17 Dec 2013. I highly recommend that you purchase both books these should be read as a series (I received Happily Ever After for review from the publisher, but made sure to read Kiss the Bride first). Wilde is such a talented author that you can read these as stand-alones, but why should you with the availability of these two fabulous (and inexpensive) collections.

The Wedding Veil Wishes series focuses on four friends who couldn't have more dissimilar personalities, but are the kind of BFF's that don't hang up if you call when they're "busy" in the middle of the night with an emergency that calls for chocolate or ice cream. The veil, found by Texas socialite Delaney in a second-hand store in There Goes the Bride bestows it's magic on school teacher Rachael in Addicted to Love and attorney Tish in All of Me. And did I mention how convenient it is to have the stories collected like this? My e-Reader smiled when Happily Ever After was loaded on it along with Kiss the Bride.

In Addicted to Love, Rachael returns to her hometown after being jilted - for the second time - at the alter and is caught defacing a billboard by the proverbial boy next door, now Sheriff of Valentine, Texas. With a community brought up only to believe in happily ever afters, Rachael is totally devastated by what she sees as the ultimate betrayal of her life-long dream. This spunky heroine chooses to put her foot down and soon has the town in an uproar with her antics. In addition, the 30-year-long marriage of her parents falters and seems to be ending; she loses her job; and that Sheriff, well he's just too tempting for a gal who's sworn off relationships. I laughed myself silly reading some of the goings on in Valentine, but also grabbed a tissue a time or two as well.

In All of Me, after losing her mentor and suffering the worst of betrayals of heart, attorney Jillian packs Texas in and heads to a Colorado lakeside cottage her mentor left her in his will. When she arrives she finds the cottage already occupied by the antagonistic widowed son-in-law of her mentor. These two individuals are quite obviously damaged. One by betrayal, one by the loss of what he sees as the love of his life - his only soulmate. But the heat they generate is not all in anger, but is there a happily-ever-after in their future? Definitely grab the Kleenex box for this one!

Wilde is a wonderful writer and I love the Texas "voice" of her characters and the communities she creates. My wish is that we'd learn more about the story of the shop owner who sold the veil to Delaney. I have a feeling that would be a story and a half!

I highly recommend adding this fun, romantic, and quite sexy series to your e-Readers and give it the proverbial five stars for a fabulous read!

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I received an eARC from the publisher through NetGalley for use in this review.
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August 4, 2015
This, like the breath mint of old, is two, two, two books in one. In "Adicted to Love," Rachael Henderson finds herself in a rather precarious position--literally. She was dumped at the altar and learned that the 27-year marriage of her parents was ending all in the same day. The other problem is that this isn't Rachael's first time at being dumped on her wedding day. But this time, something snaps, and she deliberately drives all night to her girlhood home town of Valentine, Texas, where she climbs onto the billboard that announces the town as the romance capital of the USA and defaces the sign with black paint. She is caught, of course, and the town's blustering fat-boy mayor, who is the community's biggest booster, insists that charges be brought against her for the vandalism she has done.

The problem is, the local war hero turned sheriff doesn't have the staff on hand to keep Rachael in the jail. With some natural misgivings, he brings her home to his house where she is instructed to remain and not escape.

This is sighingly predictable, meaning you'll sigh and roll your eyes a bit if you read it at how predictable it is, She gets lots of community service hours for her vandalism, and of course, that keeps her in close touch with the young sheriff in town. You can imagine the rest. But while it's predictable, it's fun, too. You see, it's all about an enchanted wedding veil that was made centuries ago by a young Irish girl who was thought to possess witch-like powers. Those who possess the old veil, as did Rachael, will have their romantic wishes come true.
In "All of Me," Jillian Samuels is a no-nonsense lawyer who firmly believes that true love, if it exists at all, exists only in the foolish minds and hearts of others. She is burning out on the job as the book begins. Her beloved mentor in the legal profession has just died, leaving her a lake house in a small Colorado town. The only complication is that the house is already occupied by a young widower whose deceased wife was the daughter of Jillian's mentor. Again, here comes that predictability wagon loaded beyond belief with plot turns you'll figure out well in advance.

Those who prefer not to read descriptions of full-on premarital sex will want to pass by this or keep a nimble finger poised over your book navigation buttons if you read this electronically. In its defense, the book is written in a fun quick-read writing style, and you quickly come to appreciate both of these women and their vastly differing approaches to life.

I should point out that these are books three an four of Wilde's Wedding Veil series. I've not read the first two.
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441 reviews19 followers
January 15, 2014
Contemporary, Romance



Addicted to Love
Valentine, Texas

Rachel Henderson grew up in Valentine, Texas where everyone is brought up to believe in happily ever after. Rachel believed it wholeheartedly too until she was left at the alter by two different grooms. After that she gets in trouble with an act of rebellion that is completely out of character for her. It also get her arrested by her childhood crush and the current sheriff, Brody Carlton. Now she has sworn off love though before her bad ending her chance meeting and arrest would have had her planning a wedding. She just wishes she could stop fantasying about Brody. Maybe this time she might be able to have her happily ever after. Is it possible that she has finally found the right man after all?


All of Me
Salvation, Colorado

Jillian Samuels is dealing with a betrayal that has left her with the wish of being able to have a fresh start. With a newly inherited home in Salvation, Colorado that just might be possible. It has a great mountain view a fireplace for those cold nights and one unexpected amenity that she never expected, a gorgeous man that is extremely infuriating and already living there.

Tucker “Tuck” Manning isn’t about to give up his home without fighting for it first. Now Jillian and Tuck have to untangle the mess of who actually owns the home and until they are able to do that they become unlikely roommates. As they go through the days and nights they find they have a lot more in common than just the house. They also find that sometimes you find what you need most in the most unlikely of places.



While this is a sizeable book it is actually two novels in one. The stories are warm hearted and are sure to please the romantics at heart. They are actually part of a four book series but can be read as stand alones. The characters are very well written and readers will enjoy being taken on the journeys as each couple finds their way to their happily ever after. They are both sweet stories that will have readers falling in love with the towns and characters and hating to leave the areas. It will also have readers wishing to find places in real life like these small towns. These two are ones to definitely take the time to read and savor.
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689 reviews6 followers
July 22, 2016
***ARC from NetGalley in Exchange for an honest review***

This compilation contains Book 3 & 4 of the Wedding Veil Wishes, either can stand alone but the experience is definitely better if you read all 4 books. Lori Wilde is one of my favorites because she writes vibrant characters and very real situations. Both Addicted to Love and All of Me have characters (both main and supporting) that are vivid and real making the reader feel like they are part of the action. I was invested in this series and wanted to meet the "girls" and share in their stories. I recommend the whole series!
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September 25, 2014
What a feel-good pair of stories! I laughed so much as I fell in love. I feel like I know these characters personally.

*ARC provided through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*
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