Dumped at the altar and left without a home, Rosie Xalbadora takes a job as a governess at the edge of the Australian outback. There she meets Pippa Bristow, a sensitive child who copes with her parent’s bitter divorce by escaping into a magical world of fairy queens and unicorns.
Tasked with helping Pippa catch up with her flagging studies, she becomes a pawn in the ongoing custody dispute between Pippa’s father, Adam, and his selfish, oil-heiress wife. As the tension mounts and Rosie becomes privy to the Bristow’s many secrets, she must face the ghosts of her own painful past while fighting a growing attraction to her handsome, emotionally unavailable employer. But help comes in the form of a quirky elderly neighbor, a friendly Outback town, and a ghost rider who visits Rosie each night in her dreams.
If Wishes Were Horses is the first book of The Auction trilogy, a family saga set in Australia, styled with the heart-wrenching, Gothic undertones of Jane Eyre, and just a hint of the supernatural.
“Both Rosie and Adam are damaged people … Pippa, the little girl, is enchanting, [She’s] very fragile, having been caught up in the ugliness of a custody battle between her parents … You’ll want to hug Pippa and keep her safe…” —Dark Lilith Book Blogs