overhears them discussing it late one night. Though raised by loving parents, Kendall feels displaced all her life and when she is old enough she accesses her adoption papers. When she learns that her birth mother is her childhood idol, Erica Kane, she dreams of a mother-daughter reunion and of basking in her idol's approval. She arrives in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania as a teenage runaway and aspires to a job at Enchantment, her mother's cosmetics company, keeping her identity a secret at first. Erica hires Kendall as her personal assistant to help plan her wedding to Count Dimitri Marick. In April 1993 Erica's mother, Mona Kane Tyler, recognizes a familiar birthmark on Kendall's neck, identical to the birthmark she saw on Erica's firstborn when she held her as a baby. Mona suspects Kendall is the daughter Erica bore at 14 after being raped on her 14th birthday by movie actor Richard Fields. Fields had hoped to act in a film that Eric Kane, Erica's father, was producing. Young Erica had suppressed the memories but they return in May 1993 after learning Kendall is her daughter. Meanwhile, Kendall reveals to Myrtle that Erica is her mother, showing her adoption papers listing Erica's name. Jealous of the attention her half-sister Bianca Montgomery receives after a horse-riding accident in May 1993, Kendall blurts out her real identity to Erica, who welcomes the young woman into her life as her daughter and invites her to live with her. Erica, Dimitri, Kendall, and Bianca all work to grow as a family, and it works for a time, but Kendall's jealousy of Bianca, and of the attention she receives from Erica, persists as she and Bianca continue to bicker and act out. Bianca, likewise feeling jealous by Kendall's developing relationship with Erica, ruins Kendall's bridesmaid dress with ink in an unsuccessful attempt to remove her from Erica's wedding party in June 1993. Kendall manipulates Bianca and when Bianca locks herself in the Wildwind mausoleum in August 1993, Kendall ignores her sister's cries but reveals her sister's location soon afterward. As Erica and Kendall work to develop a healthy mother-daughter relationship, an unaware Kendall accidentally stumbles upon her birth father's identity in August and begs Erica to tell her who her biological father is. Erica initially attempts to shield Kendall from this but, at Kendall's pleas to tell her, Erica reluctantly reveals this information, stunning Kendall. When