Caleb didn't know that one night of bliss last spring with small town beauty Maya Brand had resulted in a pregnancy, until the blackmail attempt arrived on his desk in an unmarked envelope, complete with photos of Maya with a belly out to there. When he learns the truth, Caleb rushes back to Big Falls, determined to make it right despite what the scandal will do to his high profile career and the family legacy he's never truly wanted. All he wants is Maya and their child. But can a girl whose father abandoned and betrayed her, ever truly believe in the goodness of a man who left town the morning after losing her virginity to their one-night-stand? How can he convince her that he hasn't stopped thinking about her since then, much less do so with the whole world watching? His chance to prove himself arrives when a freak storm isolates Maya and labor comes on early on a Christmas Eve no one in Big Falls will ever forget.