The best is yet to come: Ivy McKenzie is astonished by Ryder Calaway's current interest in her after he rejected her five years earlier, and when Mike Ryan gets Denise Torrance pregnant, he insists that she marry him and she does, hoping to win his love.

Maternity bride: The stick was blue -- and positive! Any way she looked at it, Denise Torrances's well-ordered life was about to turn upside-down . . . and all because of an unexpected night with the man of her dreams! So when that very man insisted they marry for their child's sake, Denise could only hope Mike Ryan would be the groom of her dreams, too . . . There was no denying the passion that burned between them -- her handsome new husband's desire for her hadn't cooled a bit. But dare Denise hope to win his heart.