Luna fell into Llanview and in love with Max, but his eyes were on Blair.

Unaware that she was Dorian�s niece, Viki hired Blair to be her new assistant at The Banner. Blair was harboring more than her share of secrets. For one, she hid her crazy mother, Addie Cramer, in her loft at the local boarding house. Unbeknownst to anyone, Addie was Dorian�s older sister, whom had been institutionalized for years.

Blair blamed her Aunt Dorian for her mother�s illness, and clandestinely came to Llanview to get revenge. One of her first devious moves designed to destroy Dorian was to get her signature on a document admitting to the world that she had killed her late husband, Victor Lord, back in 1976. Dorian had no idea that the piece of paper she signed was a confession of her guilt!

Megan was diagnosed with a potentially fatal case of lupus. Without Jake to help her in her time of need, she turned to the kindly and wise Reverend Andrew Carpenter, the minister at St. James Church. He became her dearest friend. At the same time, Andrew�s feelings grew into something much more. As the year came to an end, Reverend Carpenter found himself facing a heartbreaking dilemma. He had fallen in love with the very-married Megan Harrison.

As Megan�s conditioning worsening, the family attempted to locate her now missing husband. Cord and Blair volunteered to go on the rescue mission, upon Jake�s whereabouts being narrowed down to the middle eastern city of Jaba. There, the two posed as medic�s, but were lured into a trap set by the evil General Gaza. Upon their locating Jake, before they could dash to freedom, he was recaptured. Cord, meanwhile, was shot in the chest and fell into the Jaba River. Blair dove in after him, but his lifeless body was swept away in the rushing current. Returning to Llanview, she had no choice but to tell Tina the numbing news that her dear husband Cord was dead.