Come Talk To Sandra Dallas About Her Brand New Book!

The Bride's House, the story of three generations of women who live in a Victorian house in Georgetown, Colo., is scheduled to be published in early May. Sandra's tenth novel, The Bride's House is set in an actual house that Sandra and her husband, Bob, purchased four years ago. Both the house's restoration and the novel took three years to complete.

Here's a capsule of the story:

Young Nealie Bent arrives in Georgetown in 1880 to work as a hired girl and dreams of living in the Bride's House with Will Spaulding, a wealthy mining engineer from the East, who takes her on long walks through the mountains, as well as to the theater and to the town's finest restaurant. Will is not the only one who pursues Nealie. Charlie Dumas, a laborer, wants to marry her, and although Nealie rebuffs him, Charlie refuses to give up. Ultimately, Nealie must deal with lies, secrets, and heartache before she chooses who will give her the Bride's House.

Pearl, Nealie's daughter, is raised by a domineering father, who keeps the Bride's House as a shrine to Nealie. Pearl is 30 and well on her way to becoming a spinster when she meets the enterprising Frank Curry. When Frank asks for Pearl's hand in marriage, her father sabotages the union. But Pearl has inherited her mother's tenacity of heart, and her father underestimates the lengths to which the women of the Bride's House will go for love

Susan is the last of the strong-willed women to live in the Bride's House. She's proud of the women who came before her. Their legacy and the Bride's House secrets force Susan to question what she wants and who she loves.

Set amid the boom-and-bust history of a Colorado mining town, The Bride's House brings to life an unforgettable era and three unforgettable women.

Dallas will be at our Colfax Avenue store at 7:30 pm  on Monday, May 2, 2011.