Divine Vintage by Sandra L. Young – Review by Roxsanne Lesieur.

Divine Vintage by Sandra L. Young
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Tess Burton is a woman with a dream, a dream of owning her own vintage clothing store and spreading the passion and love she has for it with the world and her dream has finally come true and she has called her boutique Divine Vintage. On her opening day, her first customer is someone who is having an event to showcase an important event in which a set of clothing pieces are going to be modelled for the public and the person organising it invites Tess to model one of the gowns, of course she says yes and agrees wholeheartedly.

On the day of the show, Tess heads to the house and is given a beautiful gown from an Edwardian era trousseau, she is also partnered with a very handsome man wearing a tuxedo which fits him like a glove, Trey Dunmore, together they walk the catwalk, however, as they come to the end Tess is overcome by a vision and collapses into Trey’s arms. As he takes her somewhere to recover, he is astounded to find that when she wakes up, she makes a shocking exclamation and it relates to his family history and the event which taints it, a century old murder in which a bridegroom kills his bride, but her description of her vision through the eyes of the murdered bride unnerves his sceptical nature and he refuses to believe what she saw.

As the days pass and Trey has had time to process his feelings around Tess and the vision she had, he decides to go along with the exploration of his family’s past as he wants to clear the black mark, but while he remains sceptical, Tess uses more clothing and a diary to aid in the discoveries, including a growing list of suspects, he cannot deny that there is an attraction to Tess there, but he is also worried that the images of the past are influencing their present growing intimacy. This is a murder mystery where history is viewed through modern day eyes, as the events leading up to the murder are revealed, they see that romance was as thorny then as it is now, but will the past railroad the present, or will peace and happiness be found by all involved?

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