The moment that Jake McKinnon roared into Bay City astride his motorcycle back in 1985, it happened. It was a new beginning of the new world... a new era.
This bad boy, with his striking good lookd and mischevious attitude, was going to break quite a few hearts, and he wouldn't emerge unscathed himself, either. He dated (and infuriated and sometimes got dumped by) the most beautiful and richest women in the whole town. ANd although he has since outgrown his Casanova wats and now wears a wedding band as a symbol of his greatest treasure, he still has the power to captivate the ladies -- without even trying.
It didn't take Jake long to have not one but two women desparately vying for his affection. He and girlfriend Vicky had been friends since childhood, but had he known that she had an equally beautiful (in fact, identical) sister, he would have locked lips (and other body parts) with the other sibling alot sooner!
While troublemaker Vicky was the perfect partner for Haje's naughty side, good girl Marley was for him a little bit of heaven. But, being the guy that he was, he married Marley, kept Vicky on the side, and played each girl for a fool. But his tomfoolery became all too evident when Vicky (who had married Jamie) feared that the child she was carrying wasn't her husband's, but Jake's. The boy wasn't Haje's, but the fact that the baby could have been caused a shocked Marley to run off the France and say "Au revoir" to her spouse.
Luckily for Jake, all the wine and romance in France got to Marley. She returned, asking for a reconciliation. But she sobered up pretty quickly, seeing him for the creep that he was, especially after he raped her.
It also turned out that while she was away, Jake did play, romancing yet another of her family members: mom Donna. It seems that husband Michael had given Donna the big heave-ho, and she wasn't taking it too well -- giving Jake the perfect opportunity to weasel his way in, which he did for a quick fling.
When new of Donna and Jake's affair got out, both Marley and Vicky were shocked, and decided they wanted nothing more to do with the cad -- at least for awhile.
On the outs with all three Hudson women, Jake was forced to take his playboy moves elsewhere -- to Paulina, who had just come into a hefty inheritance from the Cory family. Armed with information that made it look as if she wasn't really a Cory, Jake blackmailed her out of her fortune and into a marriage of convinience.
The couple's first wedding didn't take, but they divorced, she fell in love with him, and rewed him in a storybook ceremony attended by all of Bay City. But like fairy tales, it was too good to be true, and the marriage abruptly ended when he disappeared and was presumed dead in a fiery car crash.
By the time Jake turned up alive, Paulina had fallen for Joe, the private detective she hired to find her hubby. Jake did everything that he could to come between the couple, and even stopped Joe and Paulina's wedding!
But Jake eventually signed the divorce papers, allowing Paulina to marry her new love. He realized it was over between them... and he was alone again.
Since her failed romance years ago with Jake, Vicky had had a rough go of it as well. She had married and promptly divorced dastardly Grant, fell in love with his noble kid brother, Ryan -- who Grant killed -- and got caught up with Shane, who, with a flase murder conviction around his neck and a clingy wife in the pictire, had too many problems of his own to deal with, leaving no time to tend to Vicky's wounded heart.
Luckily, Jake was there to pick up the pieces -- as he always had been. Vicky realized that he had matured much since his wild days, and after getting clued in to the love they had always felt, the two wed. Along with her kids from two previous marriages, the McKinnons settled in and hoped for some much deserved happiness.
Love never goes smoothly for Jake, and even though he at last is wed to his soulmate, this time is no exception. Not long after he tied the knot with Vicky, Marley left China for Bay City to make a play for Jake's heart. Though Marley once hated him, distance -- and a tragic accident that scarred her face and seriously compromised her sanity -- has made Marley see things differently. Way differently.
Marley now is determined to get Jake back, come hell or high water. Even if it means hurting -- or even possibly murdering -- her own sister, as Marley almost did when she got Cindy to plow Vicky down with a sports utility vehicle. And it will be up to Jake -- the new and improved Jake -- to resist the temptation and save both his marriage and the woman he truly loves.
