Caroline Benét enjoyed one night in her fiancé's arms before he left to fight for freedom in the Texas territory. The day news reaches her of the Alamo slaughter is the day she learns she is carrying his child. He may have survived, but Brandon Dumont can't return to the the woman he loves-not as a cripple and a man battling his own personal demons. When Caroline shows up in Texas, he is determined to send her packing. But Caroline wants more than Brandon's name for their baby. She soon realizes it will take a love as big as Texas to win him back.