He raised one child who might be his own. Does he have it in his heart to do it again?Fire chief Nick Dalton has a lot on his plate. He's had to move to a small town in Washington to get his twelve-going-on-twenty-year-old daughter away from the rough crowd she was hanging out with in Los Angeles. He's also struggling with the knowledge his late wife imparted on her deathbed - their child might not be his biologically. Erin Hanson has returned to the small town she grew up in to come to grips with a failed romance, and Nick is just the kind of man to make her quickly forget her woes. But suddenly she has a more wrenching situation on her hands - she's pregnant with her ex-fiancé's child. Erin knows Nick loves her. Now they both have to find out if he can love her baby, too.

Max Walker loves his daughters with a ferocity and depth that constantly surprises him. But in the deepest corner of his heart, in a place not even his wife knows about, he's always wanted a son. Kelly Walker adores her children and she adores her husband of thirteen years. But recently she's developed interests outside the home. They each get what they want in unexpected ways.