If Wishes Were Horses
Mar 9, 2011
If Wishes Were Horses
Author: Robert Barclay
Publisher: William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date: February 15, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-06-196688-0
This is another Nicholas Sparks type book filled with hope and redemption of lost souls.(I did not copy that from the press release, I wrote it and then realized the release agreed with me.) Not that it's a bad thing to be compared to Nicholas. The books generally have happy endings, strength of character and found love.
This story starts off with the phone call no one ever wants to receive. Wyatt is celebrating his birthday when his wife and young son run out to buy more ice cream. They are hit by a drunk driver and never make it home. The other driver also dies.
5 years later Wyatt is slowly starting to wake up from his years of existing instead of living and decides to once again open his wife's dream - a ranch camp for troubled teens. He tells his idea to his pastor who immediately propositions him with a great challenge.... to take into the program the troubled teen son of the man that killed his wife and child. The boy has not had it easy in those 5 years either.
Wyatt reluctantly agrees, not only because his pastor asks, but because the boy's mother, the widow of the drunk driver, looks at him with such hope and desperation in her eyes that he can't say no. Gabby is so concerned about her son that she's willing to face a man still very, very angry about what her husband did.
Slowly Gabby and Wyatt come to know each other and other feelings start to grow, feelings neither believe they have the right to feel. Will they be able to overcome the guilt they feel from becoming closer to each other, or will the memory of their dead keep a wedge firmly between them?
Read and find out!
