Molly Boudreau has the career she always wanted: she's a doctor at last. Yet there's a hole in her life. She yearns for a soul-stirring connection - and her prayers are answered in a way she could never have predicted . . . A pregnant girl shows up at Molly's hospital, alone and terrified, only to be murdered after she gives birth. But Molly made this young mother a promise, and she now flees with the baby to her own hometown. With everyone assuming the infant is hers, she has no trouble hiding the much more explosive truth - until a sexy reporter with smouldering eyes starts asking probing questions. Dean Coletta wants to know everything about this 'mother and child'. . . even as he longs to hold Molly's body next to his . . . even as he carefully guards his own shocking secret, the one that now threatens the child Molly loves more than life itself.