The very handsome man sitting on Alice Dougherty's sofa and asking for her advice was none other than Hayes Bradford - the widowed father she'd once come so close to marrying. It seemed like yesterday that Hayes had broken her heart, yet it had been twelve long years since she'd seen him and his adorable little son. But now that son was all grown-up and had gotten a lovely young woman in the family way. Yet Hayes just wasn't ready to be a grandfather, and suddenly Alice found herself in the middle of the family she still very much wanted to call her own...