SOAPS IN DEPTH

Hellraiser: Sami Reed, Days of Our Lives

Despite the fact that she managed to get hitched to Austin Reed, the man of her dreams, this incorrigible, junior deceiver is living a nightmare. Even after she drugged him, got him into bed, and convinced him that her son is his, too, he's hung up on her older sister, Carrie. Still, Sami hasn't taken her eyes off the prize. "In her mind, she's supposed to be with Austin," says Alison Sweeney, her portrayer. "She will do absolutely anything to keep her fantasy world in tact." And if that means dashing the hopes of both Austin and Carrie for the future? Well, life is a bitch.