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.