Eleanora Whitman: ruthlessly efficient, totally organized, thoroughly businesslike chief of staff. Personal goals: run a division, then her own company. However attractive her new CEO and however crazy, though successful, his management methods may be, she believes she has the fortitude to ignore the first and the abilities to work with and learn from the second. Lawrence, "Rence," Stratford: irreverently laid-back, impossibly facetious, thoroughly charming CEO, who has been hiding his true nature-corporate wolf. Business goal: put his own leadership stamp on the conglomerate. He expects no...

Linda Rebane has achieved her life-long goal of running the family business, Rebane Renovations. She's about to begin a major project-when the old structure mysteriously burns. She doesn't let the catastrophe slow her down, however, not when new business drops into her lap. Corporate wolf Mike Stratford, architect and president of WIN Construction, needs an old apartment building rehabbed. Because this won't be his usual new-from-the-ground-up undertaking, he chooses Rebane to do the work. In the background lurks his idea of corporate expansion-taking over her company, with or without her...