Ties That Bind

The lives of two strangers are about to be irrevocably intertwined as a result of a dying woman's last words. Kate Yager, the 32-year-old daughter of a teenage statistic, finds herself suddenly alone in life when the woman who was her mother and best friend loses her battle with bone cancer. Shattered and shaken, she is left to ponder a name that escaped her mother's lips just before death. Was it the name of her father? Determined to find out, she leaves her quiet life in Albuquerque behind and moves to San Francisco to find a man who is a complete stranger'a stranger she hopes will be a connection to the mother she lost.