Ida Sinclair is headed to Cripple Creek. She must first graduate from Business school. There someone that tries and mess that up with her. Her professor see her skills and is intruding and asks Ida to meet him at his office to chat after she done with her duties.



Ida just want a job in the business world? Will she get it in New York or will she go to Cripple Creek? That her plan to go to Cripple Creek to be with her sisters Nell and Kat along. Her father want he to. Her little sister Vivian is to join them the next summer.



Tucker Raines is asked to come to Cripple Creek by his mother. He arrives a day or so before Ida Sinclair. He left his sister to come help out. He finds out his father is ill and he got to take over the family business “The Raines Ice Company”. Tucker finds that having his mother and father stay in Colorado Springs so that his father can stay at the hospital is the best option and care.



Tucker finds out what the real reason and his father is in debt. How will Tucker pull his family business out of debt but also pay for his sister Willow care as well. Tucker runs into Ida Sinclair for the first time at the depot with his mother and father.



There are surprises as you turn the pages. What will happen to Tucker and Ida? Mona get you hooked and you can't be let go. You also learn about the Cripple Creek around that time period in history. ( )

Mona takes you to small western town and brings the challenges of being a woman entrepreneur in a man's world to the reader's heart. The struggles faced can easily be those of today's yet the setting allows for the chivalry of years gone by.

A satisfying read that gives a bit of mystery,struggle and family ties that enables your heart to be warmed and stirred to hope again. ( )

I enjoyed reading this book and the previous one on the way to reading the third one that I won as an early reviewer. Ida is materialistic and may have been considered a feminist in her day, but in the end she learned to trust God and put him first. I don't know if she's my favorite Sinclair sister, but I really liked Tucker Raines. ( )

The town of Cripple Creek and the folks in it are starting to grow on me, and so are the Sinclair sisters. They each have their own distinct personalities. This was book two in this series and it really is a good idea to read them in order so you get to know the town and the sisters better.

This story was about the oldest Sinclair sister, Ida, who arrives in Cripple Creek ready to be a successful businesswoman in a town that doesn't look favorably on women who involve themselves in the man's business world. Ida has no interest in pursuing a relationship with either Colin Wagner, the lawyer, or Tucker Raines, the preacher, but then sometimes the heart just doesn't listen to ones well laid out plans.

This story was a good sequel to book one and had a lighthearted tone to it, but also dealt with some lessons on forgiveness, family loyalty, and learning to put the right goals first place in ones life. It had alot of good messages woven throughout this story and I enjoyed my time in Cripple Creek and look forward to book 3 (and just learned that there is a book four coming out soon). ( )

Too Rich To Be A Bride - By Mona Hodgson is a story about two characters who's lives are full of dreams and responsibilities yet who are both very much alone. The first, a lovely independent woman named Ida. Sinclair from Maine determined to follow her dream of being a business owner. While taking business classes in the hopes of some day running a business of her own. Ida. thinks she has met her equal in her professor only to find that his intentions are not what she imagined. She is offered a position with him only to find that he values her as a mistress not a business partner proving to her she may have a much tougher time of being a women in a man’s world of business than she thought. Disappointed by his advances she decides to venture out west to Cripple Creek Colorado where two of her sisters live with their husbands landing her an interview with the most successful business woman in Colorado.
The second character is a handsome young traveling preacher named Tucker Raines who leaves his calling to go to Colorado to take care of his ailing father and run the family ice business while he settles his father’s affairs. Through struggling with trials of his own and seeking to do the will of the Lord, Tucker finds that God has a much different plan for his life than the one he would have chosen. Ida has her sights set on high society while Tucker knows Ida is way out of his grasp for any future together yet they seem to keep crossing each others paths in the most awkward circumstances. It seems that fate and Hattie, the owner of the boarding house where Ida. is staying seem to have more hope of what the future holds for Ida. and Tucker then do they. Read more to find out how a tall and handsome stranger comes into Ida's life almost causing her to lose all she holds dear and how that encounter shows her just how perfectly matched to Tucker she is. ( )