Kelly-Ann

Kelly-Ann is a minx, plain and simple. Vindictive, spiteful, gauche, and quite willing to hit below the beltline, she does have a good side if you can find it. When she was younger she had a fling with Michael Salvatore, which resulted in a baby they named Kol. Kelly-Ann was unable to care for the little boy and sadly left him on an orphanage step, hoping he would be cared for and adopted. Much later on, she met and fell in love with recently widowed Jeff Walker. She married him but hated his daughter Arianna with a Snow-White-Stepmother hatred, banishing her stepdaughter to Florida. To be fair Arianna always resented her stepmother and didn't exactly try to welcome her.
Kelly-Ann did and does truly love Jeff and was very unhappy at his grief upon hearing that the ship Arianna was on had wrecked. She suggested they take a plane to the Caribbean and try to find out if Arianna had survived. Ironically the plane crashed on the very island where the ship wrecked, and Jeff was reunited with his daughter. After finding out that Arianna was now married and a mother, Kelly-Ann reluctantly and tacitly conceded that Arianna wasn't the spoiled brat she had been in South Carolina, and the two operated as untrusting allies. Kelly-Ann learned that a man named Michael was responsible for most the pain and suffering the wrecked survivors had experienced on the island but didn't make the connection between him and her former fling.