Here is a synopsis of Kendall Hart Slater's life in Pine Valley


Brief Character History

Kendall Hart first appeared to us as a fragile young woman who sought out her idol, Erica Kane, at Enchantment in hopes of finding employment. Erica hired Kendall as her as personal assistant and she took up residence at Myrtle Fargate's boarding house. As Erica's assistant, Kendall became very involved in Erica's personal life as she helped to coordinate Erica's wedding to Dimitri Marick. It was during this time that Erica's mother, Mona, made a startling discovery. She noticed a familiar birthmark on Kendall's neck and realized that she had seen that birthmark once before.

Twenty-three years prior, Erica had been raped by Richard Fields, an actor friend of her father's, and had become pregnant. She was only 14 years old and since abortion was not legal at that time, she had been forced to give birth to the child and put it up for adoption. Before being given to the adoptive parents, Mona had held the child briefly and noticed the birthmark.

Erica however, buried this painful memory from her consciousness and now as an adult she was not ever aware she bore another child. The truth became known when a jealous Kendall blurted out the truth when Erica's daughter Bianca was hurt in a riding accident.

The mother and daughter reunion did not go well at all. Kendall had become obsessed with finding her biological father but Erica forbade Kendall to look for him--after all, he was the monster who raped her. Kendall ignored Erica's warning and managed to con Dimitri(Erica's husband) into helping her locate Richard Fields(Kendall's biological father). When Erica learned of Kendall's continued pursuit she told Dimitri that Kendall was no longer welcomed in their home (Wildwind). Dimitri, unaware of Kendall's lies, challenged Erica's decision, and as a result Erica asked Dimitri for a divorce.

Kendall was secretly falling for Dimitri. One evening she spent the night with Anton Lang, a medical student from Hungary whom Dimitri was fond of, and she ran to Erica and lied that Dimitri had raped her. In an enraged moment, Erica believing that Dimitri raped Kendall, confronted him and plunged a letter opener into his chest.

During the trial, Kendall tried to unnerve her mother by wheeling the elderly and ailing Richard Fields into the courtroom. She also testified against her mother claiming that Erica knowingly stabbed Dimitri because she was jealous that he had seduced Kendall. Later Kendall learned the truth about Richard Fields when he tried to force himself on Bianca. Seeing the error of her ways, she finally told the truth at Erica's trial, but she was sent to jail for committing perjury.

Early in 1994 Kendall befriended Del Henry, a writer with a secret and she teamed up with him to write a scandalous tell-all book about the life and love's of her mother--Erica Kane.

After her short stay in jail, Kendall fell in love with Anton. He proposed and she accepted. Kendall discovered that Anton was really Dimitri's son by Corvina(whom Anton believed was his older sister). Being the schemer that she was, Kendall wanted Anton to claim his birthright. With Corvina's help, she forged documents stating that Corvina and Dimitri were switched at birth which would mean that Corvina and Anton would inherit the Marick fortune.

Kendall's scheme failed and Anton divorced her. She continued to work on the book with Del, and he slowly began to make her realize that there were more important things in life than getting back at Erica and that she would only harm herself in the end. He even helped her mend her relationship with her adoptive family in Florida whom she had resented for keeping her adoption a secret. Despite everyone's warnings to Del about Kendall's true character, he believed she had finally changed. Kendall fell in love with her friend Del Henry and they planned to marry. They left Pine Valley after receiving the sad news that her adoptive father, Bill Hart had died. They left for Florida to live with Alice Hart but not before she and Erica were able to come to some sort of understanding. Erica finally accepted Kendall's apology for all the evil she had caused.

Kendall returned to Pine Valley in January 2002 when Erica was on trial for the murder of Mary Frances "Frankie" Stone. Hell-bent on revenge, Kendall hoped that her testimony about how she and her mother did not get along would send Erica up the river -- permanently. What Kendall didn't know, however, was that Erica had hoped for the very same thing. Kendall's damning testimony would, in Erica's mind, protect Bianca -- the person Erica really believed killed Frankie.

Kendall's plot to send her mother to jail was thwarted when Erica was found not-guilty. Kendall was furious, but found some comfort in an unlikely friendship with Ryan Lavery. The "opposites attract" friendship resulted in the pair living together for a short time - though it was strictly platonic. Kendall soon decided to move into Myrtle's boarding house to offer care for Chris Stamp, Ryan's dad - and to play mind games with half-sister, Bianca.

Kendall became Ryan's neighbor at the Pine Cone Hotel. Their mutual antagonism eventually turned to affection. Ryan eventually proposed marriage to Kendall and gave her a ring once given to his mother. Kendall and Ryan made plans to leave Pine Valley as soon as her name was cleared. Kendall had been accused of torching Erica's home. Ryan's faith in her innocence became a source of contention between him and Chris. Kendall was eventually cleared when Erica learned that Myrtle had seen Kendall at the boarding house at about the same time that the fire was started. Erica sat on the news for several weeks, but she eventually came clean.

On his wedding day, Ryan looked for his father to invite him to the ceremony but he instead found Kendall trying to seduce Aidan Devane. Instead of leaving Pine Valley with his new wife, Ryan roared out of town on his motorcycle - alone -- as Kendall stood in the rain begging for him to stay.

After Ryan left, Kendall found herself with her sights set on another man in town -- Palmer Cortlandt and his sizeable bank book. Palmer took a liking to Kendall who much to Opal's chagrin hired Kendall as Petey's nanny. Petey was the perfect child as long as Kendall paid him off. After threatening to go to the Bar Association about Trey's illegal tactics, Trey agreed to let Kendall move in with him. Trey and Kendall began to compare childhood experiences and the two began to bond. They kissed but Kendall broke away from Trey. Chris Stamp told Kendall that someone had burned Erica's house to cover up the theft of Chris's Proteus files and that person had set up Kendall. Trey tried to get Kendall to not co-operate with Chris, but it made Kendall suspicious that Trey was the person who had set the fire. Vanessa learned that Trey and Kendall were bonding and warned Trey to stay away from Kendall, that she was poison. When Kendall told Bianca about her suspicions that Trey had been the person who had started the fire at Erica's house Bianca arranged a meeting with Jackson. Jackson called in Chris Stamp and after many questions the two decided they believed Kendall. Kendall forced Trey to admit that he burned down Erica's house and Kendall agreed with Jackson to have the apartment bugged and to get Trey's confession on tape. In the meantime, Kendall told Trey he reminded her of her father, Richard Fields. Trey suspected that Richard Fields was his father too and after receiving no information from Vanessa, Trey and Kendall had a DNA test and learned that they were indeed brother and sister. Kendall overheard Trey and Vanessa talking and Trey telling Vanessa he cared for Kendall. Kendall softened on Trey and told Trey not to go into the bugged apartment and chose not to press charges against Trey for framing her. Kendall did force Trey to make a list of every lie he'd told since arriving in Pine Valley. Kendall continued to protect Trey. Erica offered Kendall a position at Enchantment in exchange for Trey's written confession but Kendall chose not to betray her brother. Trey told Kendall about Vanessa's missing diamonds and they went to Miller's Falls where Kendall went into the water and retrieved the diamonds. Kendall reluctantly agreed with Trey to turn the diamonds over to the police.

Kendall and JR became close and shared a passionate kiss. Kendall told JR she wouldn't let anything happen between her and a "kid." JR continued to admire Kendall and developed a crush on her. They remained friends. Petey learned of a kiss between Kendall and JR and blackmailed Kendall.

Kendall and Aidan were very attracted to one another but Kendall wondered who was so special to Aidan. She spied on Aidan and notified Jackson that she had found Maria Santos Grey. Aidan was furious with Kendall for turning in Maria. Kendall told Aidan she did it because she was jealous of Maria. They kissed. Kendall and Aidan were on again off again and she continued to be jealous of Maria. After Kendall filled in on Aidan's job as bartender Aidan came to thank Kendall and they made love. Aidan told Kendall to stop the revenge against her mother and grow up. Once again they decided to only be friends.

When confronted by Erica, Greenlee pretended to hire Kendall as her assistant at Revlon, but once Erica was out of sight Greenlee wanted nothing to do with Kendall. Kendall tried to get Greenlee to hire her but Greenlee continued to not want anything to do with Kendall. Kendall ingratiated herself to Greenlee by hiring a top spokeswoman away from Enchantment and brought her to Revlon. Greenlee still wouldn't hire Kendall but when a co-worker came in the office and bowed to Greenlee telling Greenlee she was bowing to greatness, Kendall took advantage of the opportunity and introduced herself as Greenlee's assistant. After the death of Leo, Kendall tried to cover for Greenlee at work. Greenlee thought Kendall was trying to steal her job. A huge argument ensued in the office and both Kendall and Greenlee ended up losing their jobs. The two continued fighting and Trey suggested the two start a business together. Trey asked Kendall to find out about the ownership of a building Greenlee had asked him to acquire. Petey overheard the conversation and offered to tell who owned the building for money. Kendall realized that Palmer must own the building. Kendall met with Palmer and leased the building for a few dollars per year. Greenlee was furious when she found out but reluctantly agreed to team up with Kendall if she could have the corner office. They formed a cosmetics company. Simone later joined the company and with help from JR, Kendall arranged for a meeting with Liza who provided the financial support needed. The new company was called Fusion.

Bianca was raped by Michael Cambias, who also tried to rape Erica and Kendall, but was not successful. Bianca didn't tell anyone about the rape, although everyone noticed the drastic and unhealthy change in her behavior. In order to cover up her rape, she told everyone that she had broken up with Lena and that is why she was so upset. Shortly after, she discovered from a routine check-up with doctor, David Hayward, that she was pregnant with Michael's child. She chose not to tell anyone about the pregnancy for some time, but when she told Erica, Erica tried to convince her to abort the pregnancy. She didn't want Bianca to suffer through the pain she experienced when she had Kendall, who immediately became scorned as a "child of rape." Bianca was torn between terminating the pregnancy and keeping the child to raise as her own. She decided to have an abortion and made an appointment with David immediately. When she got to the clinic, she ran into Kendall. Kendall realized why she was there and told her sister that she needed to do what was right for her, even if it meant terminating the pregnancy. In the short time they spent together at that clinic, Bianca formed a close bond with her sister and finally understood all the pain that Kendall had been living through because of how she was conceived. Kendall told Bianca she loved her and would support whatever decision she made. After a long discussion with David and the kind words from Kendall, she decided not to terminate the pregnancy.

Kendall's sisterly act soon turned into a nightmare for Bianca when she announced that she married Michael in Las Vegas to get a hold of his money, and her cosmetics that he had stolen back. Kendall waved around her marriage license like it was money and flocked her news to the entire town. Everyone resented her and thought she was lying. Shortly after being a newlywed, Michael showed up dead in the freezer of an abandoned warehouse, that Kendall had purchased the day before. Soon, everyone in Pine Valley became a suspect, even Bianca. Bianca swore that she was with Reggie, Jackson's adopted son, the entire night of the trial. With Michael's death, Kendall thought she would be the lucky inheritor of his riches, but her plans were side tracked by Ryan Lavery. Ryan announced at a mysterious dinner that in Alexander Cambias' (Michael's father) will, he would be the sole heir of the Cambias fortune, unless Michael had a child.

Even with this news, Bianca still refused to tell anyone the truth. The last thing she wanted from the Cambias family was their money. Kendall came to her to try to explain that she married Michael for his money and never slept with him. Kendall told Bianca over and over again that what she did, she did it to protect her and Erica. Bianca believed her and their relationship grew stronger. When Kendall came to visit Bianca in her new apartment, she found a baby book in a stack of books on a coffee table. When she picked up the baby book, Bianca's first sonogram tumbled out. Bianca was forced to come clean and told Kendall that she never aborted the pregnancy. She told her that after their conversation, she couldn't terminate the baby without terminating Kendall also. Kendall understood her reasoning and agreed that Erica shouldn't know about the baby.

Kendall planned a funeral for Michael to throw the cops off and get them off her back. She expected no one to show up, but everyone in Pine Valley did. They all spit their demons onto his casket and watched it lower to the ground. When Bianca and Kendall were standing by the grave, Bianca became weak and fainted. Ryan came to her side and helped her stand up, but noticed the sonogram that fell out of her purse. He immediately asked her whose sonogram it was and Bianca was silent. He continued to question her and Kendall jumped to her defense. In a desperate attempt to protect her sister, she told Ryan that she was pregnant with Michael's child.

Ryan refused to believe her story and figured she made it up to save her from the cops. By this time, they were considering Kendall a primary suspect and if she married Michael, had sex with him that night, then she could not have killed him. While Ryan was determined to find out the truth, Kendall and Bianca panicked about the baby. They told David and David offered to help make Kendall look as though she was pregnant. Bianca didn't want to go along with the plan and put Kendall in more danger, but Kendall refused to let Erica know the truth. She swore to Bianca that she wanted to protect her and the baby from living with the stereotypes as a child of rape. Maggie soon discovered their plan and thought it was extreme but out of love for Bianca, agreed to help. Bianca even confides to Lena about her pregnancy because she didn't want to lie to her. They were finally starting to form a friendship and when Lena heard the truth, she continued to stand by Bianca's side and keep her secret.

Of course, Ryan blabbed the news to Greenlee Dupres, who informed her arch enemy, Erica, about Kendall's pregnancy. Bianca stood by and watched her mother bash Kendall for carrying Michael's child. Bianca pretended to hate Kendall as well, for the sake of their plan, but deep down, she hated how her mother treated Kendall. Erica acted as though carrying Michael's child was the most disgusting and selfish thing anyone could do. Ryan forced Kendall to take a pregnancy test to determine if she was lying and to settle the dispute about the Cambias will. Maria Gray performed the test as everyone watched. Bianca created a distraction outside, and David quickly swapped Kendall's blood sample with one he had drawn previously from Bianca.

As this was happening, Kendall was arrested for Michael's murder, although everyone in Pine Valley seemed to think she was innocent -- even Erica. Ryan approached Bianca about Kendall's pregnancy and told her that he knew Kendall would pass the DNA test. He never came out and said it, but Ryan implied that he knew that it was Bianca who was pregnant. Despite Ryan's willingness to help, Kendall constantly turned him away. Later, however, Kendall agreed to let Ryan help out. He hired a top-notch doctor who agreed to conduct a non-invasive paternity test on Bianca and say that she had conducted the test on Kendall. The test results satisfied the court, but there were still those who doubted that Kendall was really pregnant. In the middle of court, Greenlee duPres yanked Kendall's dress off, revealing a pregnancy pooch. The incident turned everything upside down. Everyone put two and two together and realized that Bianca was carrying Michael's child. Erica was outraged and blasted her daughters for having lied to her. Kendall and Bianca both claimed that they had been doing what they thought was best for Erica, but Erica didn't believe them. Slowly but surely, Bianca started to recall that she might have more information about Cambias' murder. The pieces finally fell together and she realized that she had been the one who'd shot and killed Michael. She had visited Michael's condo toting Reggie's gun. When Michael again tried to harm her, she shot and killed him. Following Bianca's confession, the judge presiding over the case leaned hard on the prosecution not to press any charges against Bianca.

As Bianca's due date approached, she found herself trapped in the middle of nowhere with Babe following a storm, Babe called Paul and asked that he fly his medical helicopter to take her and Bianca to the hospital. Paul initially refused, but later agreed. When he arrived, he helped Babe deliver her baby. He then administered an unknown medicine to Babe leaving her groggy. During this time, Paul staged a chopper crash. When Babe awakened, Paul told her that he baby had died during the crash. However, when help arrived and Babe's family threatened harm to Paul if anything had happened to Babe's child, Paul changed his story and said that Bianca's baby had been thrown from the chopper. He had hid Babe's baby in a nearby cabin and planned to give the baby boy to Kelly so that she could pass the baby off as her own. Bianca's baby was then given to Babe, leaving Bianca and her family to believe that her child had been killed.

The truth eventually came out that baby Bess Chandler was really Miranda. Kendall refused to believe that J.R. was connected with keeping her sister's baby from her, and reserved all her hatred for Babe. Her relationship with Ethan Cambias fell apart when he could not let go of his vendetta against Zach, but just when Ethan came to her and told her that he had chosen Zach over her, at Jack and Erica's wedding in Florida, Zach dropped a bombshell on his son -- he and Kendall had just gotten married! Kendall and Zach soon began to have genuine feelings for each other, although neither was willing to put it into words. When Kendall was determined to help Greenlee, who had learned she couldn't have children, have a child of her own, Zach seemed to reluctantly support Kendall's plan to carry Ryan and Greenlee's baby for them. The night before Kendall was due to be inseminated, a blackout occurred in Pine Valley. Concerned, Kendall went to the clinic, where she convinced Madden to inseminate her that night.

Greenlee was thrilled that Kendall was having her baby, although disappointed that Kendall had done it without her being there. Shortly after Kendall's pregnancy was confirmed, Ryan (who had been believed dead when he drove his motorcycle off a cliff) returned to Pine Valley, alive and well, followed by his brother, Jonathan, and sister, Erin. Greenlee and Kendall agreed to keep the truth from Ryan, but blurted it out during a fire at the roadhouse bar to make sure that Ryan saved Kendall and his child. Shortly after, on Thanksgiving, Greenlee announced that Kendall had actually used her own egg rather than Greenlee's. Kendall tried to explain that the blackout had destroyed Greenlee's eggs and she had fully planned to give the baby to Ryan and Greenlee. Greenlee wasn't interested in anything Kendall had to say and left town.

Kendall was left with the awkward decision of whether or not to continue with the pregnancy. After a Christmas visit from first Bianca and then Father Clarence, Kendall decided to go through with her pregnancy. She and Zach also grew closer, but learning that Zach was responsible for the blackout that had necessitated using her own egg, Kendall ended her relationship with him. She grew closer to Greg Madden, and decided that his suggestion to give the baby up for adoption was the right one. She agreed to go to an island that Madden ran, where there were a number of pregnant women esconced. Zach showed up on the island and 'kidnapped' her -- the two remarried in a romantic ceremony on the boat. Kendall and Zach returned to Pine Valley very much in love, but before Kendall had a chance to talk to her family about how much she wanted the baby (whom she had nicknamed Spike) and Zach, she stopped by Fusion, where she agreed to talk to J.R. on Babe's behalf. When she showed up at a meeting that was supposed to be between Babe and J.R., she was trapped under falling construction.

Kendall ended up in the hospital, where she lay in a coma while her friends and family tried to decide whether to put her life or Spike's life first. Zach barricaded himself in her room in an attempt to save her while Kendall, able to hear and understand everything while in her coma, pleaded in her own mind for her friends and family to save her son. Spike was delivered early, but luckily he had been in long enough to survive. Kendall awoke from her coma to find Ryan and Bianca by her side (Zach was in jail), and was awed to see her son for the first time. She went to court to testify against J.R., who had confessed to his heinous actions while she was unconscious, but her word wasn't accepted as she had been in a coma at the time. After Babe lied to protect J.R. in court, Kendall was determined to make both of them pay. She was initially furious with Zach for helping Dixie, but Zach helped her realize that Dixie was only a woman trying to find her own lost child, and Kendall vowed to help Dixie in any way that she could.