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is with a beautiful strength of character, under a rather sweet physical
appearance, that young German Katrina Ruyker enters the Capwell mansion
in May 1991. Her grandparents having been good friends of C.C. Capwell
during World War II, Katrina is welcomed with opened arms by the family
which welcomes her in the villa.
If
some first pretenders as Mason Capwell or Amado Gonzalez show her a
certain interest, it with Dash Nichols that Katrina immediately falls in
love. She spends time with him in the mountains, where Dash makes hours
of community works. By learning by a jealous Amado that Dash hid her to
be Julia Wainwright’s rapist, Katrina runs away towards the hills
where she finds herself prisoner of a fire. She owes her life to Dash,
come to save her in spite of the danger, and so decides to make a clean
sweep of his past.
But
the Capwells do not see this relation of the same eye. Katrina so
discovers that through his henchman Craig Hunt, C.C. threatened Dash to
send her back in Germany if he refused to leave her. She is even
assaulted by men, paid by Craig to intimidate Dash. Even if C.C. tells
her that he does not approve Craig's violent methods and apologizes,
Katrina prefers to leave the Capwell mansion to live more freely her
relation with Dash. She finds a work in Warren Lockridge's newspaper, Santa Barbara Conscience, where she works with Suzanne Collier,
her new roommate and confidante.
Katrina then does
everything she can to help
Dash in his conquest of rehabilitation. She even writes an article
praising his virtues to lead to forget the rape of which he was the
author. She so succeeds in finding him in spite of her a job as a doctor
outside the city, and sees Dash leaving her to start a new life far from
his past and of Santa Barbara.
After
Dash’s departure for Saint-Louis, Katrina begins to date Ted Capwell
who, since his come-back in Santa Barbara, did not stop turning around
her. She becomes sincerely in love with him, and even intends to get
married. But she discovers one fine day that the redoubtable womanizer
has an affair with Angela Raymond behind her back and she immediately
leaves him. Katrina decides then to leave Santa Barbara to find Dash,
her real love, in Saint-Louis...
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Marcy
Walker replaced by a stranger of 24 years old !,
1991
