Seven months and counting--

"It's confession time, lady. Are you having my baby?" Rake Stockwell on his possible paternity

Lawman Rafe Stockwell's bulldozer interrogation techniques produced nothing but sideways glances and evasion from his pregnant ex-girlfriend Caroline Carlyle. But his soul needed no convincing -- he had fathered her baby-on-the-way. And no child of his would suffer the wounds of neglect from an absentee father! The only answer was marriage -- but Caroline rebuffed his proposal, claiming she refused to be any man's ball and chain.

Still, Rafe had never stopped loving sweet Caroline and now he faced the challenge of his life -- convincing her his marriage demands were not borne of obligation!