With a head more suited to bookkeeping than a bridal veil, Ida’s dreams include big business- not beaus.
Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado for one reason: to work for the infamous but undeniably successful businesswoman, Mollie O’Bryan. Ida’s sisters may be interested in making a match for their determined older sister, but Ida only wants to build her career.
Under Mollie’s tutelage, Ida learns how to play the stock market and revels in her promising accomplishments. Fighting for respect in a man’s world, her ambition leaves little room for distractions. She ignores her family’s reservations about Mollie O’Bryan’s business practices, but no matter how she tries, she can’t ignore the two men pursuing her affections—Colin Wagner, the dashing lawyer, and Tucker Raines, the traveling preacher.
Ida wants a career more than anything else, so she shrugs off the suitors and pointed “suggestions” that young ladies don’t belong in business. Will it take unexpected love—or unexpected danger—for Ida to realize where her priorities truly lie?
Coming from Colorado and frequently Cripple Creek occasionally, I am always interested in a historical romance (fiction or not) centered around a place I know and love to hear about. I enjoyed actually knowing where Myers Street is and being able to picture some of the places talked about in the book lined up. While names where changed it isn’t hard to fill in the blanks.
Ida is a headstrong girl way ahead of her times! She isn’t about to let anybody stand in her way and has a quick tongue to let them know it. Ida has her mind sent on one thing only and that is to make a career in the business world, a man’s world at the time. Like every good goal though there are obstacles to conquer and for Ida that happens to be the community she lives in and of course love.
I found Too Rich For A Bride to be a quick and enjoyable read. I would recommend it to my friends who are into this type of genre, as a matter of fact my mother in law will be picking it up tonight.
Over the past twenty years, Mona Hodgson’s publishing credits have grown to include nearly thirty children’s books, contributions to more than ten books for adults, and historical novels, including her debut, Two Brides Too Many. Mona is a popular speaker for women’s groups, schools, and educators’ and writers’ conferences. She lives in Arizona with her husband and has two daughters and several grandchildren.
