Madeira Cutler, a successful New York fashion designer, heads home to Mystick Falls, Connecticut to help plan her baby sister’s wedding. Maddie’s magic touch with vintage clothing is needed to make the Vancortland family wedding dress into the dress of Sherry’s dreams and salvage a touchy situation. But when an old girlfriend of Sherry’s fiancé is murdered in their home, it looks like Maddie may be designing jail fashions for Sherry, the prime suspect. Between trying to solve the murder to prove her sister innocent in time for the wedding, altering the beautiful vintage wedding dress, lusting after Nick her on again off again boyfriend, and toying with the idea of staying in Mystick and opening a vintage clothing shop, Maddie’s pincushion is full. But there is more to Maddie’s “magic touch” with vintage clothing than even Maddie knew and her gift may offer the clue that solves the murder.

Anytime a favorite author begins a new series, I can’t wait to see if they have done it again and written another set of books to love. Annette Blair’s first book of her new Vintage Magic Mystery series, A Veiled Deception, is my favorite book to date. She has more than done it again; she has surpassed her other books of which I am a huge fan! The book has the classic Annette Blair style with the quirky, fun, twist of paranormal and a heated romantic interest that we have all come to love in her previous series but also offers a fresh new story line.

Madeira, Maddie to her friends, is a classy, intelligent, sexy, and fun character with a special gift with vintage clothing that goes beyond just instinct and into the realm of a paranormal gift! It is this special gift that offers Maddie peeks into the past lives of a Vancortland bride that becomes the driving force behind Maddie’s determination to link the past with the present murder and possibly solve the crime. Nick, Maddie’s on again and off again boyfriend, adds the steamy sexual elements to the story we all love, and as a special bonus he is a FBI agent with connections that can help Maddie clear her sister. There is a whole host of additional secondary characters which also add to the appeal of the story, but I don’t have room to tell you about them. If you are already an Annette Blair fan you will love this book. If you are new to Annette Blair’s quirky sense of humor and fun filled stories, I highly recommend starting with this one! I hope Ms. Blair is writing fast to produce a sequel quickly because I am already impatiently waiting to see what happens next in the life of Maddie and her friends.

Reviewed by: Stephanie B.