Yolanda Lloyd

An ambitious womanizer, rejected by the romance novelist he planned to marry, ends the story she was writing with a gun and makes the murder like a robbery gone awry.

Greg goes back to work, hospital bed and all, while fiancé Paige grows increasingly ambivalent about their relationship. Val refuses to believe her diagnosis and secretly stops her medication. Jason tells a worried Mack to leave him alone.

Anne becomes entangled with Nick again, but their hotel room tryst turns into a murder mystery when he presents her with a dead woman and a treasure hunt. Mack gets a suspended sentence as Dick Lochner regains custody of Jason.

When the court sends Jason back to his abusive father, Mack helps him escape and faces kidnapping charges by refusing to reveal the boy's whereabouts. Steve's interest in Claudia attracts attention from a mysterious stranger, who warns the photographer about his prison record.

As Christmas approaches, Claudia blackmails Anne and Nick into witnessing a forged version of Greg's will, Paige is sabotaged by Linda, Gary and Val struggle with her head injury and an increasingly suspicious Mack calls the police when he hears a struggle starting in Jason's house.

Karen discovers Val's deception, Frank unwittingly goes on a date with his daughter's teacher, and a beaten Jason turns to Mack for help.