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Erika Leeders has left the employ of Canyon View Country Clubs accounting team to join her sorority sisters CPA firm in Century City. She arranged to meet with Kim Atters, of Atters and Atters, CPAs, after she and her girlfriend won ten million dollars in the California lottery. Erika sought Kims advice on an investment strategy. However, Kim saw the potential Erika might offer her firm and offered Erika a position at Atters and Atters to help develop a niche marketing opportunity for country clubs. Kim and her husband, Jason, had concentrated on California computer related firms for their specialty.
Meanwhile, David Arthur, Erikas current boyfriend who commutes between Chicago and Los Angeles, meets a former friend, Mickey Peters. He knew her when they were in college, and both his family and hers know one another. Mickey Peters is the CEO of the Vitamin Depot and David and his Dad, Bradley, are scheduled to meet with her and her staff, to propose a solution to their national and international expansion plans.
Erikas close girlfriend, Marcie, is involved in a serious automobile accident. David and Erika go to comfort Amy, Marcies lesbian lover, while Marcie is in the hospital. Marcie appears to need a long recovery but is out of danger. Meanwhile, Erika while shopping has a chance meeting with one of our nations top professional golfers, Jimmy Anderson. Erika discovers he has golf schools around the nation. They exchange information and arrange to meet for lunch and one thing leads to another. Jimmy likes her approach to solving theft problems at country clubs and promotes Erikas firm, Atters and Atters, CPAs, to other club managers.
Erika still continues to be Davids girlfriend and lover during this chance encounter. However, David is spending more time in Chicago for business and Erika takes on Jimmys offer to attend some events. In fact, Erika has now become involved with a national celebrity who is constantly being photographed and approached. Her handling of these events is quite interesting as she gains control of them. In fact at the Hollywood Bowl Jimmy kissed Erika lightly on her lips and a photographer for the Los Angles Times took their picture. Eventually David Arthur and many others will see this photo and assume they are now romantically linked.
David and Mickey have an adventure at Mickeys ranch outside of Chicago and David experiences horseback riding, fishing and intimacy, like he has never known with anyone in his life. They begin to fall in love and Mickey takes him to meet her family, friends and eventually he presents a proposal to do work for the Vitamin Depot stores. His Dad, Bradley, is involved with David and has high hopes that David will take over his company, Arthur Industries, real soon.
Erika gets involved with traveling to some of the clubs that Jimmy has made contact with and sure enough they want presentations along with proposals. Erika has little experience with sales and has done very nominal travel over the years. Now she gets serious enough to make things happen for Atters and Atters and jumps into the travel arena. Meanwhile she also gets to attend one of Jimmys major golf tournaments in Naples, Florida. She meets and becomes friendly with Jimmys major competitors wife.
During Erikas travels she is carjacked by a known criminal in the Houston, Texas area and has a life threatening adventure. This situation results in national publicity and because of the publicity, many clubs seek her expertise. David discovers that Erika is getting more involved with Jimmy Anderson while he is completely taken with Mickeys beauty and intelligence. They begin an affair that David was never expecting. Meanwhile, Bradley Arthur is pleading with David to take over Arthur Industries and move permanently back to the Chicago area.
Erika and Jimmy become erotically and emotionally involved. His caddie, Gene, knows hes been effected by Erika and tries to get Jimmy to realize this maybe just another follower. Jimmy disagrees since hes begun to fall in love with Erika. His golf tournaments get Erika to attend and get involved with his day to day life. Erika now has to tell David that she has fallen in love with Jimmy. David has to tell Erika that he has fallen in love with Mickey.
Davids mother suffers a stroke and brings the family closer than ever. David realizes his place is to take over Arthur Industries from his Dad and makes the move to be closer to Mickey. Meanwhile Jimmy suffers some medical problems and has some set backs in his quest for winning a tournament.
The success that Erika brings to Atters and Atters results in her becoming a partner and her income increases substantially. Marcie and Amy begin the vitamin program at clubs nationally with great success. David has become more involved with Mickey, discovers he has found his future with her. He is forced to become the CEO of Arthur Industries in Chicago so his Dad can spend time with his Mom during her rehabilitation period.
David and Mickey have evolved to the point of living together in Chicago. They each work out of Chicago and Mickeys firm, the Vitamin Depot, discovers they have imported drugs instead of the proper vitamin K as the order specified. They work out a program to dissolve their problems and continue on with their lives.
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