Gabe. Gabriel Butler is a successful rodeo clown. Out of costume, he's a confident, happy-go-lucky man - except when he thinks about the woman he left back home. Unfortunately, the minute he sets foot in Calloway Corners, Louisiana, he becomes nothing more than Jesse Calloway's bastard son. Gretchen. Gretchen West's life is worlds apart from Gabe's. But she's never forgotten the wonderful night she shared with Gabe. How could she? A month later her doctor confirmed what she'd already begun to suspect - she was pregnant. Now Gretchen has to convince Gabe that he can put his past behind him and become the father he always wished he'd have himself.