When Samantha O'Beck has time to think about her life, she shakes her head baffled at the speed in which her world has turned upside down. She goes from a happy, carefree, college graduate, engaged to Christopher Stavous, one of the wealthiest men in the world, to a hardworking, bewildered, single mother in the space of one year. Sam can still remember the feelings she experienced when she gazed down at the home pregnancy test and realized she was pregnant. Joy, despair, terror and fierce love for her unborn baby raged like a storm inside her very soul. Her immediate urge to call him had battled with embarrassment and humiliation at the thought he might believe she conceived on purpose. The telephone call was never made and for the next five years she and her daughter settle down to a life in New York City. Now her mother is ill and needs her. Samantha knows she will have to weather the storm of gossip and speculation her homecoming will produce. But she is ready. She is no longer the naive, gullible twenty-two-year old she had been. She is a twenty-seven year old woman who is tougher and wiser than the young girl who had fled five-years before. Sam is confident she can handle anything Christopher or his mother will hurl at her. Samantha quickly realizes she has underestimated the fury of betrayal Christopher feels when he discovered he has a daughter. Not only does he want Cally, he wants to destroy Samantha in any way he can. When five-year old Cally is suddenly kidnapped, Samantha and Christopher will have to work together to save Cally's life. Samantha discovers the love she has for Christopher still smolders just below the surface. Can they bury the bitterness that has developed between them long enough to find their daughter?