The mystery man leaves a torn photo on a sleeping Stephanie's pillow. Jake and Jilly check out Revenge's form and Jilly urges Jake to forget the bet and leave now but he refuses. Jake tells Jilly a disqualification in the race would mean the other person won and Jilly gets an idea. Dennis proposes to Cassie and he wants to borrow $60,000 from her to bet on the race to set up their future. Jilly takes the company payroll and prepares to leave on her own. At the airport she receives a phone call from the mystery man who tells her we can still win this one. This prompts her to stay. Jake and Stephanie sign a contract making the bet legal and Stephanie tells Jake she will have to redecorate the office when she wins. Dennis catches Jilly trying to drug Tara's Pride and when the police show up Jilly says she was asleep at the time. After Tara's Pride is moved Jilly offers Cassie $250,000 to tell her where the horse has been moved to.

Jake rescues Jilly from the pool and revives her. When Jilly tells him Anton tried to drown her Jake tells her he's paid Anton off to get out of their lives. Jake tries one last time to persuade Stephanie to marry him but again she refuses. Dennis tells Jilly Jake is only marrying her as Stephanie wont have him. Stephanie's thoughts return to her son she gave up for adoption at 18 whilst a mystery person is watching her. Jilly tells Jake they are going to siphon off all the company funds into a swiss bank account and leave the country. Jake tells Jilly he has entered her horse into the Melbourne Cup and if they stay awhile they could make a fortune. Jilly goes on a spending spree and tells Jake she wants the swiss bank account number as a wedding present. Jake and Jilly marry. Stephanie offers Dan some money to open a clinic on the island they visited. Things go wrong between Sarah and Angelo when he takes up boxing again to try and support them. Sarah tearfully goes to see Tom and tel

Dan is furious everyone knew she was alive apart from him and that she turned to Ahmal for help. Jake tells a shaken Jilly she was never in Stephanie's league. Jilly tells Jake she will go to the police with Cassie's photographs unless he goes ahead and marries her. A still shaken Jilly sees a doctor. Jake tells Stephanie he is still in love with her and Jilly confronts Stephanie. Johnno goes to see Tom but decides not to tell him he is his real father. Jake calls Jilly's bluff and tells her he would rather go to prison than marry her. She pulls a gun on him and Jake tells Anton to get rid of her. Jessica asks Stephanie to resolve things with Dan so they all know where they stand. They agree they have no future together but hope to remain friends. Anton spikes Jilly's drink with a sedative. Jilly receives news from the doctor she saw that she is pregnant. She calls Jake with the news. Anton continues with his plan and dumps a now sleepy Jilly in the swimming pool and holds her head und

Stephanie races back to Eden with Jake in pursuit. When they reach Eden, Stephanie rushes to her room, where the real Princess is waiting. Jake insists the Princess is Stephanie, but only Jilly is allowed to see the Princess unveiled and can see it's not Stephanie. Jilly is furious with Jake's obsession with Stephanie and tells him he is jeopardizing the deal with Ahmal. Stephanie tells Bill of the her plan to get Jake interested in buying the land Ahmal is after. Really the land is worthless. Bill manages to replace the real land survey report with a fake one. Jake gives Jilly a race horse which she calls Revenge. A recovered Tom decides to return to New York now that Sarah is married. Johnno poses as an ex disgruntled employee of Ahmal and tells her the land is rich in oil. Jilly mortgages everything she owns to get a option on the land. Sarah tells Tom he is the father of her unborn baby not Angelo and Tom then tells Sarah they are not related. Sarah faints in shock threatening the

Jake kills the snake with a gun and Jilly sends home all the servants for the day. They put the body in the boot of a car and drive it to the pier near Tara's. Cassie spots them moving the body into a boat and photographs them in the process. Stephanie dressed as Talitha comes to stay at Eden and Jake recognizes something familiar about the Princess. Jilly takes the princess to Tara's and Cassie shows Jilly the photos and tells her that unless she gives her 50% ownership of Tara's she will go to the police. Jilly is furious when Jake agrees to Cassie's demands. Sarah gives her blessing to Dan and Jessica's relationship. Johnno takes Bill to see Stephanie. Jake unexpectedly shows up and recognizes her.

Stephanie convinces Ahmal to let his sister Princess Talitha accompany her back to Australia so Stephanie can pose as her. Ahmal reluctantly agrees. Romance begins to blossom between Dan and Jessica. He sees in her what he first saw in Stephanie. With the company in trouble Jake begs Bill to return as General Manager, he agrees so he can find evidence about Jake's illegal dealings. Stephanie returns to Australia and her disguise even fools Johnno. Stephanie dressed as Talitha joins Ahmal in a business meeting with Jake and Jilly. Ahmal wants to buy a large area of cattle land through Sanders Mining. Jilly takes Talitha under her wing at Eden. Jilly trys to get rid of Olive and Olive grabs Jilly by the hair. Jake rescues her and gives Olive her marching orders. Stephanie is upset when she sees Dan and Jessica together. She has seen that look in his eyes before when he first fell in love with her. Jake catches Olive trying to break into Eden with a snake, believing its just another harml

Dan operates on Jessica like he did on Stephanie 7 years earlier. Stephanie is shocked when Johnno tells her he is Tom's father making him not her son. Jake wants Jilly to get rid of Olive for good. Olive angers Jilly by surprising her whilst she is in the bath. She notes how convenient it is that no more snakes have turned up since she agreed to let Olive stay. Angelo proposes to Sarah. Jilly realizes how lonely she is and tries to get the Harper's's back in her life. Jessica wants nothing more to do with her but Sarah agrees to have her marriage to Angelo at Eden. Dave is injured and Stephanie is forced to face her fears and swim across a crocodile infested river. After she makes it Dave reveals to her there are no crocodiles in that part of the river but Stephanie has faced her fears. A flying doctor is called in, and Dave insists he needs to go to hospital which is just a plan to get Stephanie to leave and get back to living her life. He gives her a small fortune of opals, which

Olive conveniently shows up and saves Jilly's life. When the police arrive they can find no trace of the snake. Tom is in a coma and Sarah sits by his bed side hoping he will recover still not knowing they are not related. Stephanie and Johhno go to stay at Dave Welles place who helped nurse Stephanie back to health 7 years ago and ponder their next move. Jilly manages to blackmail Jake into making her General Manager of the company. Another snake turns up this time in Jilly's bed. Jessica recognizes it as non-poisonous and takes care of it. The police turn up again, but Jessica denies there was ever a snake, making Jilly look delusional. Jilly throws Jessica out of Eden and she goes to stay with the Harper's. A memorial service is held for Stephanie and Jake declares to Anton he is going to marry Jilly as it's the only way to control her. Dave tells Stephanie she cant hide way for ever. Sarah quits Tara's now Jilly is in charge but Jilly persuades Cassie to stay on.

The central character in the show is Stephanie Harper, a rich heiress after her father passes away. As the series starts she has been divorced twice and is marrying Greg Marsden a champion tennis player several years her junior. Everyone except Stephanie can see that he is no good. He has been having an affair with Stephanie's best friend, Jilly Stewart. Whilst on their honeymoon at her family home Eden, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile infested river. Everyone thinks she has perished but luckily she has escaped and is given a new body, face and name by plastic surgeon Dr Dan Marshall. She returns to Sydney as a changed woman, Tara Welles. There she discovers her two children, Dennis and Sarah, going to different boarding schools, and Greg and Jilly carrying on their affair in Stephanie's own mansion in town--but she does not let any of those people see her, nor get in touch with Bill McMaster, the EVP of the mining company she inherited. As this episode ends, she dresses as a fashion plate and walks boldly into the offices of a casting agency, challenging them to get her onto the cover of Vogue in six months.

The day arrives when Jake will be officially a board member and Jilly insists he must oust Stephanie right away. Jilly urges Stephanie to go after Dan. Bill and Reena agonize over Tom dating Sarah, there is something Tom must know but Bill states Stephanie must know first. Dennis urges Stephanie to try and save her marriage to Dan and she agrees to go after him. Jake tells Jilly he needs Stephanie to be away as long as possible and Jilly says she is sure she can arrange something. Dan and Stephanie enjoy a happy reunion. In Stephanie's absence Jake calls an emergency board meeting, Stephanie will have to attend via the telephone but Olive cuts the line to the island where Dan and Stephanie are. Stephanie rush to another phone line on the island but the fuel line to the boat has been cut and the boat explodes, in Stephanie's absence Jake is elected Chairman of Harper Mining.

Jake tries to convince Jilly the land is worthless but Jilly refuses to believe him. Sarah will recover but Jake uses this by saying shes critically ill to try and flush Stephanie out in the open. It works and Stephanie sneaks into the hospital where she is reunited with Dennis and Sarah. Jake is watching the exits outside the hospital where he calls Jilly to join him. They are spotted by Johnno who manages to tell Stephanie and he manages to wheel her out on a stretcher right under their noses without her being seen. Stephanie dressed as the princess goes to see for herself that Dan will be happy with Jessica. Jessica tells her that Stephanie's career always came first and that would never happen with her and that she could make Dan happy in a way Stephanie never could. Cassie and Dennis put their differences behind them and realize they love each other. Tara's organizes a fashion show. Johnno tricks Jilly into finalizing the land deal early as the fashion show is going on, and Jilly

Six months to the day after she boldly walked into the Joanna Randell Casting Agency, she is now Vogue's cover-girl sensation and has a very successful modeling career. Now she entices Greg Marsden, whom she meets at a charity match, to start dating her. But at the same time, Dan Marshall, in Sydney for a medical conference, has looked up his former patient and renewed their acquaintance. But Stephanie refuses Dan's advances and tells him (falsely) that she does not love him. For she has now enticed Greg Marsden to go to Eden with her--alone. Except that Stephanie calls Jilly and tells her shortly before her aeroplane leaves....

Dan Marshall tracks down Stephanie, first by visiting Joanna Randell unannounced, then by visiting the Sydney house where he meets the two children, Sarah and Dennis. Stephanie, meanwhile, carefully drives Greg and Jilly to distraction until at last Greg tries to kill Jilly. Stephanie then reveals herself to them both. Greg tries at once to kill Stephanie, first by setting fire to a room in the main house at Eden, then in a swimming pool. But Jilly shoots him in the arm, making him bleed profusely. He then attempts to flee in an aeroplane. It crashes and he is killed. The next day the police arrive and arrest Jilly. The day following, another aeroplane lands--carrying Sarah, Dennis, and Dan.

The series opens with Stephanie enjoying a relaxing swim with her husband Dan 7 years on from where the mini series ended. Stephanie discovers a box of old documents which could mean big changes in her life. Jilly is released from prison after having served 7 years for Stephanie's attempted murder and the manslaughter of Greg. Jilly is taken to Eden where Stephanie announces the document states Jilly is her half sister. Stephanie tells her now they are half sisters she thinks she can forgive Jilly. Bill McMaster tells Stephanie that a man called Jake Sanders is trying to take over Harper Mining. Stephanie offers Jilly $5, 000, 000 for her part of Max Harper's estate but Jilly is angered when Bill states she must sign a waver on any future claims. Jilly reluctantly signs. Jilly goes to meet Jake and tells her she wants an alliance with him, as everything Stephanie owns is rightfully hers. Jake goes to visit a grave and it turns out he is Greg Marsden's brother.

Stephanie is out riding when Jake turns up but Jake is no match on a horse for Stephanie. Jilly hears Dennis bad mouthing her and says she is moving out from Eden. Jake shows up at Harper Mining and Stephanie tells him she has no intention of loosing the company. Phillip arranges for a prison friend of Jilly's called Olive to be released early. Stephanie agrees to give her daughter Sarah a job at Tara's and tells her son Dennis she knows he is in debt through gambling. Bill's son Tom stars work at Harper Mining and Jake and Jilly set Dennis up so he is caught in a compromising position. Jilly is furious when Jake tells her he is not only going after Harper Mining but he has sets his sights on Stephanie too. Stephanie is having nightmares about the crocodile attack 7 years earlier. Jilly meets Olive in a bar and gives her a gun and tells her to kill Stephanie. Olive shoots at Stephanie out riding and Stephanie's body lies motionless on the ground.

Jake finds Stephanie's body and rushes her to the hospital where its revealed she will be OK. Jilly says she was with Phillip at the time of Stephanie's attempted murder. A recovered Stephanie reveals to the board that Jake now owns 18% of Harper Mining and another 2% would get him a place on the board. Jilly and Stephanie agree to start over whilst all the time Jilly continues to plot against her. Stephanie confronts Dennis after she discovers he has been using company funds to feed his gambling addiction and Dennis tells her she treats him more like an employee than a son. Dan gets jealous when Stephanie dances with Jake at a cooperate event. Olive arranges a crocodile to be put into Stephanie's swimming pool.