Gabriella Oliver is the youngest daughter of her mother's eleven children. She wants to be more than a baby mama, and the beautiful daughter of a carpenter and a maid. She is engaged to Maxwell Johnson, the only child of a fourth generation family of doctors and lawyers. Gabby loves Max, but she has big dreams of her own, and she determined to pursue them. When she leaves Max in the middle of the night, she didn't leave because she stopped loving him, she left because she loves him too much for her own good. She tries to find a way to make their love last without giving up her own dreams or her man. When they find her new roommate brutally murdered and a note saying she will be next, she ends up back in Max's arms and his bed. Their afternoon of hot passion results in an unplanned pregnancy at the worst possible time in their lives. Max gives Gabby an ultimatum--marry me, drop out of school, move back to Nashville, and fill my mansion with babies. Gabby wants to marry him, but his cheating ways keep catching up to him like a speeding car. Gabby is afraid to give up everything to be with him even with a killer stalking her. Can she survive if she doesn't relent to Max's demands? Can she live with the consequences if she gives up and gives in?