When US marshal Wyatt McCabe tracks his target to a Texas ranch, he isn't the only one with Lyla Pearson in his sights. But Wyatt has a good reason for keeping the beautiful CSI director out of the line of fire. He may be the father of the child she's carrying.

The mother–to–be doesn't know who to fear more – the gunmen surrounding her house or the stranger claiming paternity of her in–vitro baby. Holed up together at his family homestead, Lyla struggles to fight her attraction to the sinfully handsome lawman. But with a killer stalking them, it may tear their new family apart…