Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible all his life. He has always been a good example of a respectable man. Until the night he got drunk and slept with a woman he barely knew.

Now, six weeks later, she's pregnant, alone, and broken. Tate must once again take responsibility for his actions. He plans to marry the mother of his child. There's just one problem... he has to tell his fiancée.

Abby Grayson hasn't had an easy life. Being the daughter of a local whore, people either avoided her or thought she was just like her mother. For Abby, life is a struggle to fill her stomach and keep a roof over her head.

Loneliness and a secret longing for this man. She thought life would never lead her to a night with Tate.

The last thing she needed was a child when she could barely take care of herself. Desperate but too proud to ask for help, she eventually accepts the job Tate offers him as his wife. Now she has almost everything she ever dreamed of.

But, only one thing will give her Tate's love - his realization that the night he spent with her was not a drunken accident. It was a last ditch attempt to win the woman he really wanted.