Dear Kate... — Marcia Miller

"There'll never be anyone but you for me, Kate," Rade told her the night he declared his love. And she believed him--until she read the letter from Rome...

End of a Dream...

Kate Mason has everything--beauty, a successful career in advertising, a lovely apartment overlooking San Francisco Bay -- everything but someone to love... until the night she meets Rade Conners. Kate loses her heart to tall, gray-eyed young Dr. Connors. But their romance is still new when an emergency takes him away to Rome, to the hospital bedside of his older brother, Jeff. Anxiously, Kate waits for news, and finally it comes: a letter from Rade. A letter that denies their love -- "I won't hold you to your declaration, just as I know you won't hold me to mine." A letter that mentions another woman, Nan... Jeff's widow. A letter that shatters Kate's perfect world...

A Matter of Record...
"You believe this letter," Tony asked, incredulously. "Yes, I can see you do!"
"Believe it!" Kate exclaimed. "Believe it? Of course I believe it! It's right there in black and white..."
Tony's thin mouth twisted. "You sure do know the man you love--I don't think. Rade Connor would never tell you he loved you one week and then change his mind the next. I know him..."
Kate's laughter was bitter. "What's wrong with you. He did change his mind... Can't you read"

Hero: Dr./Doctor Rade Connors
Heroine: Kate Mason