If Wishes Were Horses Author:Curtiss Ann Matlock Pregnant and alone, pretty young widow Etta Rivers had little to show from her marriage but her beloved unborn child -- and a debt-ridden ranch her ne'er-do-well husband had left her. Then into her life sauntered Johnny Bellah. The long, lean drifter had a way with horses... and women, but although the rugged cowboy rekindled in Etta a passionat... more »e tenderness she had long ago forgotten, she vowed she wouldn't fall under his sensuous spell.
Johnny offered to help get her ranch up and running again, and Etta had no choice but to accept his help. But as the long days working together led into long nights in each other's arms, Etta had to face the honest truth -- that she had just lost her heart to a man who found it as easy to say "goodbye" as he did to say "I love you."« less