After a traumatic day at work, paediatrician Dominic Mansfield arrives at a colleague's party craving escape. Emotionally vulnerable isn't his usual type, but the shadows in nurse Bridgette's eyes intrigue him.

Dominic's flings never last more than one night, no matter how hot! Yet the next day he finds himself knocking on Bridgette's door – and hears the sound of a crying baby!