Charmed by a mother and her little girl...Carrie Douglas can't take risks--she has her four-year-old daughter to take care of and her heart to protect. Her resolve is tested when her latest assignment puts her in the path of the gorgeously sexy and unconventional Dr. Charlie Wentworth, who spends every making hour caring for Brisbane's neediest citizens at his drop-in clinic.

Carrie is torn. Here is a man who would be a perfect husband and father, but she's been sent to assess the viability of his clinic. How can she tell Charlie her mission without destroying the trust and love growing between them--and her dream that they might one day become the family she has always longed for?