On August 19, 2014, over a decade later, Gareis returned to the series for a guest appearance, which she was required to keep a secret.

"[1] Due to the positive response to her reprisal, Gareis was offered to return months later, and appeared once again on November 13, 2014.

"[2] Grace was introduced as Sharon Newman's best friend, who had moved from Madison, Wisconsin, to Genoa City with her boyfriend, Tony Viscardi.

Realizing that she was barely able to take care of herself, let alone a young child, Millie eventually let Grace and Tony take Cassie back to Genoa City with them.

Noah unexpectedly survived, and Grace decided to keep Cassie's identity a secret from Nick and Sharon.

One night, while on a business trip, Nick finally gave into temptation, and he slept with Grace again.

Sharon was mortified to realize that software tycoon Cameron Kirsten was in town to make a business deal with Newman Enterprises.

At a bar, Sharon ran into Grace, who told her that she had been dating Cameron, and she accused her of murdering her lover.

Sharon began having what she thought were paranoid delusions of Cameron's rotting body appearing in her living room.

Desperate to find out for sure if Cameron was dead, Sharon and her mother-in-law Nikki Newman went into the sewer, where Larry had dumped the body.

While neither of them got to witness Cassie's birth, Grace remembers a nurse named Helen - Mariah's mother.

Grace returns to Genoa City again, this time in November 2014, arriving at Sharon's doorstep to see Mariah for herself; the pair exchange conversation, with Grace admitting she attempted to seduce Nick the last time she was in town months earlier.

Candace Young from Soaps She Knows called Grace "Seductive", a "Trouble-Maker" and a "bad girl" who "had her eye on her best friend's man.