Beautiful Gifts — Catherine Anderson

Some brides make their dresses. But sometimes, the dress makes the bride....

By the flickering light of a kitchen fire, a modest servant girl creates the wedding gown of her dreams -- a glorious dress of ivory silk and delicate lace that she would give anything to wear. But alas, the dress is for her haughty mistress, who is to marry the man that the poor young woman loves with all her heart. Though tempted to stop the marriage using the magical skills passed down to her through blood, the young woman instead ensures the misguided groom's future happiness by enchanting the dress so that whoever possesses it will be forever blessed with true love....

Only the spell goes delightfully awry, working its magic for the servant girl instead of her mistress, and then the dress mysteriously vanishes Who knows where or when it may turn up next, for some blushing bride to claim as her very own?

Four of today's most talented writers present a quartet of romances that follow an exquisite, enchanted wedding dress through years of laughter, tears, and never-ending love....