His fingers brushed softly against her cheek...
Elizabeth Carter has made her own way in life. She started her own business when she was only seventeen, worked to establish a national presence.
After more than 20 years, she can finally let it start bringing in the money without her hand guiding it every step of the way.
Only now that she's got time to herself, she realizes that something is missing. She wants to be a mother, to bring something of herself into the world, someone who can take over the business when she's gone.
But almost twenty-five years of tireless devotion leaves little room for romance, and Elizabeth can't wait months for a relationship to bud, not with her biological clock ticking so loudly.
A one-night stand, she decides, could work to her benefit. She can go out, find a good-looking specimen, and bring him home to become a father - whether he wants to or not.
