From the beginning, Jill Pride had been intrigued by the personality
of Erik Norlund. He seemed to be two people in one, and she couldn't
decide which of the two was more dominant the smooth, successful
American tycoon that he actually was, or the wild adventurous
Viking whose blood had been handed down to him from his Danish
forebears. She was to get her chance to find out when Erik offered
her a job in his luxury department store in sunny California-but she
also discovered that there was another woman in his life, with whom
she could not possibly hope to compete-the glamorous model Corah
Bennet.