At her father's will reading, Eliza was publicly humiliated by her fiancé Wayne and her sister Beth. They planned to destroy her, but Doris had been protecting her all along. She saved her, exposed the plot, and revealed Beth was their mother's illegitimate daughter, and Wayne was tied to her father's death. Eliza signed a one-year marriage contract with Doris and exposed everything, put Wayne and Ruby in prison. Beth retaliated with kidnapping and arson until Doris killed her. Jealous Maren allied with a mafia boss, but Doris turned the trap around. Maren died. Doris proposed. They married and rebuilt the family together.
