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Former known boyfriends : Dash Nichols (1991-1992), Ted Capwell (1992)

Profession : Journalist at The Santa Barbara Conscience

Maria Ellingsen :
May 28 1991 (# 1722) to October 05 1992 (# 2065)

It is with a strong personality, under a rather soft physical aspect, that the young German Katrina Ruyker makes her entrance to Capwell mansion in May 1991. Her grandparents having been good friends with C.C. Capwell during the Second World War, Katrina is welcomed with arms opened by the family which puts her up in the villa.

If some first pretenders as Mason Capwell or Amado Gonzalez show her a certain interest, it is with Dash Nichols that Katrina falls in love at once. 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 in the same way, and Katrina prefers to leave the Capwell mansion to live with Dash. She finds a job at Warren Lockridge's newspaper, the Santa Barbara Conscience, and gets acquainted there of Suzanne Collier who becomes her best friend and a confidante.

However, Katrina again has to undergo C.C.'s operations to make her split up with Dash. She indeed discovers that through Craig Hunt, C.C. threatened Dash to send her back to Germany if he refused to leave her. Katrina then does everything she can to help Dash in his conquest for rehabilitation. She even writes an article praising his virtues to make forget the rape he committed. But nothing changes, and she ends to recommend to Dash to leave the town if he wants to find a job one day.

After Dash's departure for Saint Louis, Katrina settles down with her friend Suzanne. She finally begins to date Ted Capwell who, since his come-back in Santa Barbara, did not stop turning around her. But one fine day she discovers that the redoubtable philanderer has an affair with Angela Raymond behind her back and she breaks up with him immediately. Katrina then decides to leave Santa Barbara to find Dash, her real love, in Saint Louis...