Sarah had loved Rome Matthews for a long time. She had seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons. When he turned to her and made her his wife, Sarah's world was at last complete.
Only one thing could have made her happier: to have Rome's baby. But Rome dared not risk losing another child. Then fate brought Sarah her child, a child Rome couldn't face, thought it might mean losing the woman he loved.
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When a sudden tragedy kills his wife and child, Rome Mathews is devastated, until his wife's friend Sarah Harper helps him to pick up the pieces. When they fall in love and get married, Sarah is ecstatic, except that Rome doesn't want any children. What he doesn't know is that Sarah has been in love with him for years, and that she's pregnant. Now Sarah has to choose between the man she loves and the child she yearns for.
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Theirs was to be a normal marriage in every way but one. Rome could never again face the pain of losing a child, so the family Sarah longed for was never to be hers. And then one day Sarah woke up pregnant.