The day hadn't started quite as Cody Holland had hoped. There had been a few too many of those days of late. What had begun so hopefully deteriorated quickly thanks in large measure to her blind ambition. She saw that now. Just as she waited in her doctor's office for confirmation of her pregnancy and her husband, Richard Brown, at home, packed away the remains of their seven month marriage.As a best-selling singer-songwriter of country music, her career was in a perfect spot. Marrying dime-store novelist Richard Brown, though, who had once moonlighted as a high school English teacher, with his bad boy image both a blessing and a curse, kicked her celebrity up a notch. With a gleam in her eyes, Cody accepted every opportunity to get her face and name in the news. Then love was just another four-letter word.Richard felt used and, in a flash of anger, showed his wife his image was deserved. It had been many years since Cody had led with her heart. She wasn't sure she remembered how. If her marriage meant anything, though, she had to try. A nightmare, too vivid to ignore, made clear the price of fame.