"Just when Kate Fansler thinks life couldn't possibly hold any more suprises, she receives a phone call from Laurence, the eldest of her imperious brothers, who has some stratling news. Laurence tells Kate that a strange man came to his office claiming to be Kate's father. So it's quite possible that she is not a Fansler at all. Dangerous curves in the road lie ahead for her, especially after she meets the man himself. When more life-threatening secrets and deceptions emrge, Kate and the Fansler family are suddenly pitched perilously close to the edge of doom."