The New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado House It\'s 1880, and for Nealie Bent, seventeen, the splendid Victorian House under construction in Georgetown, Colorado, is like a fairy tale come to life.
She is a former Denver bureau chief for Business Week magazine and lives in Denver, Colorado..
About the Author: SANDRA Dallas is the author of ten novels, including Whiter Than Snow, Prayers for Sale, Tallgrass and New Mercies.
Their legacy and the Bride\'s House\'s secrets force Susan to question what she wants and who she loves.
She\'s proud of the women who came before her.
Susan is the latest in the line of strong and willful women in the Bride\'s House.
But Pearl has inherited her mother\'s tenacity of heart, and her father underestimates the lengths to which the women in the Bride\'s House will go for love.
When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearl\'s hand in marriage, Pearl\'s father sabotages the union.
He keeps his daughter close.
Her father, robbed of the life he envisioned with Nealie, has fashioned the House into a shrine to the woman he loved.
For the motherless Pearl, growing up in the Bride\'s House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum.
Ultimately, Nealie must deal with lies, secrets, and heartache before choosing the man who will give her the Bride\'s House.
Charlie Dumas, a miner who lacks Will\'s polish, wants to marry the hired girl, too, and although Nealie rebuffs him, Charlie refuses to give up.
Will is not the only one who courts Nealie.
She dreams of living in "the Bride\'s House," as she calls it, with Will Spaulding, the young entrepreneur sent from the East by his grandfather to learn about the mining business.
The New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow delivers a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado House It\'s 1880, and for Nealie Bent, seventeen, the splendid Victorian House under construction in Georgetown, Colorado, is like a fairy tale come to life
