01681cam a2200253 4500 513062688 TxAuBib 20110530120000.0 110104s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010054559 9780312600167 031260016X (OCoLC)668191660 DLC DLC BTCTA TxAuBib Dallas, Sandra. The bride's house. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011. 374 p. Its 1880, and for unassuming seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent, the Brides House is a fairy tale come to life. It seems as if it is being built precisely for her and Will Spaulding, the man she is convinced she will marry. But life doesnt go according to plan, and Nealie finds herself in the Brides House pregnant---and married to another.For Pearl, growing up in the Brides House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum. Her father has fashioned the house into a shrine to the woman he loved, resisting all forms of change. When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearls hand in marriage, her father sabotages the union. But he underestimates the lengths to which the women in the Brides House will go for love.Susan is the latest in the line of strong and willful women in the Brides House. Shes proud of the women who came before her, but the Brides House hides secrets that will force her to question what she wants and who she loves. 20110530. Family secrets Fiction. Family chronicles 228109 Fiction. Romances 227230.