For more than six years, Seattle architect Caroline Wynn and her attorney husband, Jeffrey, have been trying to have a baby. Now, finally, Caroline is pregnant. And, wanting a lasting memory of the happiness she feels, Caroline decides to keep a pregnancy journal, writing to the baby she already loves.

Caroline's pregnancy coincides with the trial of Jeffrey's career, the case of the murder of a pregnant woman by her celebrity fiancé. For father-to-be Jeffrey, a man's murder of his unborn child is as incomprehensible as it is painful.

But there are other dangers for pregnant women and their babies. For Caroline, such perils are medical—her pregnancy is placing her health in jeopardy.

But when it comes to a choice between her own life and her baby's, there's never the slightest doubt….