TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD Jane Taylor gets so blissfully caught up in being pregnant—and telling everyone the news-that she can't own up to the truth when she finds out she never was. Jane is far from perfect, and far from maternal-but what woman doesn't want the kind of attention that comes with pregnancy?

Suddenly, it's all about her. Men are opening doors, and doors are opening for her at work, too. Her live-in boyfriend has offered to

"stand by her" in marriage, and for once Jane feels normal.

Getting further and further embroiled in her "pregnancy", it becomes even harder to end. And just as she's about to fess up, something happens that compels Jane to carry her baby charade to term.

Between baby showers and mood swings, Jane begins to take on the real-life symptoms of pregnancy, and she grows, so to speak, to become the person she's always had the potential to be.