Touch the Stars

ALL HER LIFE SHE HAD PLAYED IT SAFE

Now, having left a bad marriage and set up her own public-relations business in Denver, Kate Welles Brock was getting the first taste of what it felt like to really live.

But living meant taking risks. Philanthropist Paul Florian's interest in the needy--and in her--appeared to be genuine, but he was so closemouthed, Kate couldn't help but have doubts about him.

She was, however, as determined to ferret out Paul's secrets as she was to prove to her father, once and for all, that she deserved to succeed him as chairman of Corminco International....