Wild Enough For Willa

Wild Enough For Willa
Ann Major

One night Willa Longworth found a fortune…and a manWhat does a woman do when she finds cold hard cash at her feet? With a family against her, a son to nourish and a passion to extinguish, Willa did what any woman would do–she took the money and ran.But the past was at her heels in the form of dangerously handsome Luke McKade–a man who would follow her to the ends of the earth and make her pay for her sins. A man who had demons…and a fierce need for Willa's heart and soul.In a moment of danger and surprise, Luke discovered Willa's soft spot–him. But when all was resolved, would Willa find her real treasure? Would true love–and a million or two–be too wild a ride for Willa…or just wild enough?

Willa Longworth

Willa was a woman with one chance at destiny and she wasn’t going to let a man—or her longing for him—get in her way…or was she?

“Life’s like the weather. You can never be sure of it. That’s the miracle, don’t you see?”

Luke McKade

He had done all the right things for the wrong reasons—until he met Willa. From that moment, his life would never be the same.

“You owe me a romp in the hay, Mrs. Longworth.”

Little Red Longworth

This ailing heir wanted someone to care for him during his final days. He found an angel in Willa…and a wife.

“I went to kill me a lawyer and a bastard brother. I got a wife.”

Hesper Longworth

The spiteful sister-in-law doesn’t want Willa to get a single red cent.

“Your unfortunate past is hardly my concern, Willa dear. I’m here to buy you out.”

Brandon Baines

A powerful lawyer with an ego the size of Texas and a dangerous need to keep things—and Willa—quiet!

“It’s just me and you, sweetheart. We’re all alone in the middle of nowhere. Now, where’s the money?”

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INSEPARABLE

Wild Enough for Willa

Ann Major

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DEDICATION

To my precious daughter, Kimberley Leta Cleaves, who is quirky, funny, warm, witty, young. And because she is all those things, she is a challenge to me as a mother.When somebody asks me, where do you get your ideas, I should tell them from my daughter, who is my very own adorable muse.Thank you for Willa, Kimberley.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I want to thank the following people:

To Tara Gavin and Dianne Moggy for more than I can say

To Karen Solem

To Patience Smith

To Ted, for realizing that dinners and a clean house don’t matter nearly as much as writing

To Karen Olsson and Meg Guerra, who told me about Laredo

To Dorothy Deaver, who decorated Willa’s house

To Steve Stainkamp and Geri Rice

To Chris Misner and Greg McKee for telling me about the computer business

To Patricia Patterson for streamlining my business affairs so I can write

POEM

If I were alone in a desert

And feeling afraid,

I would want a child to be with me.

For then my fear would disappear

And I would be made strong.

This is what life in itself can do

Because it is so noble, so full of pleasure

And so powerful.

But if I could not have a child with me

I would like to have at least a living animal

At my side to comfort me.

Therefore,

Let those who bring about wonderful things

In their big, dark books