A night of magic brought a stranger and truck-stop waitress Luanne Evans together. He thought he had been careful, but he unknowingly left Luanne pregnant. Without knowing his true identity, Luanne could not contact her baby's father, so she married her "best friend," Jeff Henderson. Jeff raised Luanne's son Chase as his own and pursued a career racing cars. A year and half after the stranger left Luanne behind, he returned to the states to put a racing team together. Luanne's stranger, Prince Alek of Carpathia, was stunned to learn his future driver Jeff had married Luanne and they had a son. Ten years later Jeff dies in a tragic racetrack accident, leaving Luanne seven months pregnant. Chase blames his mother and Alek for his father's death, as grief replaces the child's once sunny disposition. Alek persuades Luanne and Chase to accompany him home to Carpathia for two weeks. After all, the child is heir to his fortune and his throne. Chase quickly adjusts to life in the palace.