When Rick Capriotti is hired over her as manager on the family horse farm, Ashley Meljac feels betrayed because Rick is a notorious bad boy who has only recently returned to Calhoun Corners. But Ashley's anger dissipates when she discovers he's an "accidental" father now struggling to raise a baby. As she watches him with the toddler, she wants to believe he's a changed man. And that he's also got a place in his heart for her....