"Guiding Light: The Complete Family Album, Special Anniversary Edition" by Julie Poll with Caelie M. Haines. Published in 1997 by General Publishing Group, Inc. to commemorate GL's 60th anniversary on radio and TV.  

Thanks, Valerie, for all your help!

Another surprise was about to threaten Alex's stability. While on business in New York, Mindy was shocked to see a man who was a dead ringer for Alex's late son, Lujack. Mindy discovered that the man was an investigative reporter named Nick McHenry. Intrigued when Mindy told of his resemblance to someone she'd once known, Nick followed her to Springfield. Stunned upon seeing a picture of Lujack, Nick decided to stay in town. As he and Mindy grew closer, Nick saw an article on Lujack that Fletcher (Reade) had written and went to him for answers. Fletcher knew Nick's parents, who were also journalists. At the airport, Alex fainted when she spotted Nick.

Alex was having a hard time deciding on a new president for Spaulding. She finally appointed Vanessa (Reardon) interim president and confronted Alan-Michael (Spaulding) about Blake (Cooper), saying he'd better lose her or forget about ever becoming president of Spaulding. Vanessa had a left a letter for Alex from Nick, but Alan-Michael had found the letter and burned it. Alex wondered if Nick was really her son, especially after hearing that at the moment of Lujack's death, Nick had been suddenly overwhelmed by grief.

Alex asked Nick if he was sure Mary McHenry was his natural mother. An irritated Nick fired back, asking if she was sure Lujack was her natural son. Mindy warned Nick that Alex wouldn't be satisfied until she owned him heart and soul. Sure enough, Alex offered Nick the Springfield Journal. He declined. He was planning to return to New York, but Alex secretly sabotaged his job there. Mindy resisted telling Alex that she planned to move to New York with Nick. Alex told her if she didn't stay away from Nick, all her dirty little secrets would come out. Mindy told Alex she was leaving town, but when Alex learned where she was headed, she vowed to follow Mindy's every move. Mindy didn't tell Billy she was leaving. She went to the airport but just missed Nick's plane.  When Nick got to New York and learned he no longer had a job thanks to Alex, he headed back to Springfield, where he found Mindy desperately trying to book a flight to be with him. The two went to the lighthouse and made love. When Alex discovered Nick and Mindy had become lovers, she sought out Billy at the Blue Moon and told him and Nick and everyone else present about Mindy's affair with Roger. That was it for Fletcher -- he washed his hands of Alex after her public display. Billy found Roger, beat him to a pulp and then told Mindy he was writing her off as his daughter.

Mindy was stunned when she met Lujack look-alike Nick McHenry, and the two fell in love. Alex was sure he was her son and couldn't tolerate his affair with the woman who had helped break up her marriage to Roger.

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Alex hired Frank to track down her ex, Eric Luvonaczek, in Paris. Thrilled when Eric admitted that she had actually given birth to twins, Alex was convinced that Nick was her son. Nick refused to listen, even when Alex told him that the doctor named on his birth certificate had been treating his mother for depression, not a pregnancy. Nick declined to take a test to disprove he was Alex's son. Eric revealed that he had lied and that Alex really hadn't had twins, but he left a DNA sample at Cedars in case Nick ever wanted to have the test done.

Alex's world continued to fall apart when Nick proposed to Mindy, and Alex turned to Roger for help in breaking them up. He agreed to do so in exchange for her help in getting back his empire. Roger told Alex that the key to separating Nick and Mindy lay in Cambrai. Although no one believed Nick was her son, Alex made him her heir. Mindy found a picture of Nick's mother dated just a month before his birth, in which she was obviously not pregnant.

Mindy quickly erased the date. When Nick decided to take the DNA test and get Alex off his back, Mindy broke into the computer at Cedars and changed the results. Roger discovered what she'd done and told Alex the tests were wrong, but he didn't rat on Mindy. Roger's next move was to go to Cambrai to look for Eve Guthrie, a woman from Nick's past whom Nick thought was dead. Roger found the beautiful young doctor hiding in a convent and offered to help her escape to Springfield. Eve ended up going to Springfield on her own. Nick was stunned when he saw Eve at the Blue Moon and ran straight into her arms. Roger made sure Mindy witnessed the ex-lovers reunion. Eve told Nick she was trying to get his best friend Paul, out of a political prison in Cambrai. Nick was shocked to learn that Eve was married to Paul. Nick helped Eve rescue Paul, and Paul told Nick that Eve had only married him to try to save him from jail. Eve decided to return to Springfield and started working at Cedars.

Miffed that Roger hadn't stopped Nick and Mindy's wedding plans, Alex threatened to tell Hart that Roger had swindled the Jessup farm away from his grandfather. Roger quieted her by telling her about Mindy changing the DNA results. He also arranged for Nick to be arrested on his way back from Cambrai so he wouldn't get home in time for the wedding. Alex then convinced Mindy that Nick had left her because he'd learned she'd tampered with his DNA test. Mindy left town. Nick arrived at the church to find Alex, who told him Mindy had changed the results of the test. Nick refused to believe it, but after he got a letter from Mindy in which she returned her engagement ring and admitted to changing the test, Nick finally acknowledged to Alex that she was his mother. She was elated until he said he couldn't forgive her for all she'd done. In an attempt to keep Nick out of Spaulding, Alan-Michael told him that Roger and Alex were behind Mindy's departure. Nick decided to pursue a job in New York. Once again, Alex made sure he didn't get it. As Nick was trying to find his identity and put Mindy behind him, Eve was waiting patiently. She wanted a future with Nick but didn't want to hurt Paul. Paul gave Eve a divorce and his blessing to marry Nick. Meanwhile, Nick learned Mindy was in New York, but she left before he could talk to her. Nick put Eve off but rediscovered his feelings for her after seeing her with another man. Just as he and Eve were making love, Mindy called home.

Jenna Bradshaw (a jewel thief) went to the Spauldings' home to rob them.  There she heard Alex and Roger plotting to break up Mindy and Nick. Jenna hid the stolen Spaulding jewels in Harley's bag, then tipped off a reporter.  Despite Jenna's actions, Harley was officially sworn in as a cop. Instead of escaping when she had a chance during the blackout, Jenna stayed with Michelle in a stalled elevator. She was arrested, but after she blackmailed Alex by threatening to reveal that Alex had been responsible for Nick missing
his wedding, Alex dropped the charges.

Eve was suspicious after finding Alan-Michael at Musette's hospital bed, and Nick's investigation into the car bombing linked Musette to Spaulding.

A tip from Henry (Jenna's father) led Nick to believe that Alan-Michael could have been behind the bombing. He revealed this to Harley, who told (her boyfriend) Mallet (who had lost his hearing and was rendered impotent in the car bombing).

Pierre (who had set the car bomb) showed up in Springfield again, and Alan-Michael hid him in the Spaulding stables. Nick planted a bug at the Spaulding mansion to get evidence implicating Alan-Michael in the bombing. When Harley came to the stables looking for more evidence (she was a cop), Pierre took her hostage. Nick and Mallet overheard Alan-Michael arrange to meet Pierre at the airport. They followed him, and the three teamed up to save Harley. Because of Alan-Michael's heroism, Harley, Mallet and Nick
decided not to tell Eleni (his wife) of his role in the bombing.

(This was a VERY complicated story in which Nick wasn't the main player, so I hope I included enough for his role in it to be understood!)