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, where she becomes a model and entices Greg into falling in love with her. They return to Eden where Jilly follows them. Stephanie hatches an elaborate plan and confronts the two of them. Greg shoots the aboriginal help working for them whilst Stephanie and Jilly save Eden from burning down by putting out a fire with the curtains. Greg then tr

Everyone thinks Stephanie has died but really she has escaped and is given a new body, face and name by a plastic surgeon named Dr Dan Marshall. She returns to Sydney as a new woman using the name Tara Welles, where she becomes a model and makes Greg fall in love with her. They return to Eden where Jilly follows them. Stephanie comes up with a plan and confronts the pair of them. Greg shoots the aboriginal help working for them whilst Stephanie and Jilly save Eden from burning down.

Greg tries to kill Stephanie in the swimming pool. Instead he is badly injured by Jilly and he attempts to flee in an aeroplane. It crashes and he is killed. The next day the police arrive and arrest Jilly. Stephanie is then reunited with the Dan and with her two children, Sarah and Dennis.