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Earlier this month, Eileen Davidson released "Death in Daytime." It's her first paperback soap opera mystery novel.

The actress spoke to CBS about the novel:

CBS.com: How did you become interested in writing?
Eileen Davidson: Oh gosh, well a long time ago I was writing in high school and college and I got some really good feedback about it but it was always in the back of my head as something I wanted to do. You know the first computer I got I considered writing children's books, but I was always pretty busy and just never found the time to do it. What happened was that my husband was approached to write a book about the poker world, a murder mystery with an author by the name of Robert Randese, he's a prolific mystery writer and they wrote a book together.

Robert lives in Missouri so he'd fly to California for a week or two at a time. One night he was over for dinner and I said we should do something around the soap opera world and he said he'd love to. A couple months later I followed it up and called him and asked if he was serious, he said absolutely and asked if I had any ideas. So I wrote up my ideas and we presented it to Penguin and we got a two book deal. So that's how it happened.

Eileen Davidson is back on The Young and the Restless.

As soap opera fans know - and are excited about! - Eileen Davidson is going back to The Young and the Restless.

The actress spoke with TV Guide Canada about the move. Here are highlights from that interview:

TVGuide.ca: Welcome back to The Young and the Restless, gorgeous! To say fans and critics are thrilled beyond belief that you have returned to reclaim what is rightfully yours in Genoa City is a gross understatement! It righted a big wrong…
Eileen Davidson: Oh, thank you, Nelson! A few weeks ago, I taped three episodes all in one day opposite Peter Bergman [Jack], Beth Maitland [Traci], and Billy Miller [Billy]. It was awesome. We taped 11 scenes in two hours! Coming back was like putting on an old pair of shoes.

TVG: Now that you’re back on contract with The Young and the Restless, I expect co-head writers Maria Arena Bell and Hogan Sheffer to write the heck out of Ashley Abbott. Why do you think other writing regimes have had difficulty writing for Ash?
ED: It never used to be like that. To be honest, I don’t know. [Conversely], on Days of our Lives, they couldn’t stop writing for me! Actually, when I returned the to Y&R the last time, I had a couple years of story. Kay Alden gave me that fabulous breast cancer storyline, which was awesome. Then there was a changing of the guard. But listen, I take some responsibility because I had a child, and my family became my priority. Not being on the front burner [wasn’t the end of the world] for me at that time.

But when my son turned three, I realized, “Oh [crap], no one has been minding Ashley’s store while I was off playing mommy.” When I snapped back into soap mode, it was too late; Ashley was written as a mean bitch and I felt like she got lost in the shuffle. Even her wardrobe began to resemble Cruella De Vil! I was like, “Where did Ashley’s sexy go? Remember when Ashley was fun?” I felt she became shrewish. Thankfully, The Bold and the Beautiful gave back to Ashley while I was over there. Hopefully that will translate onto The Young and the Restless. Maria remembers the old days, so…

Eileen Davidson is coming home.

The actress, who originated the role of Ashley on The Young and the Restless in 1982, will be returning to Genoa City for good on September 26.

The actress was let go in late 2006, but was snapped up by The Bold and the Beautiful, portraying the same characters on that series. She has crossed over a few times between the two shows.

"She's going to have a huge story," a source at The Young and the Restless told Soap Opera Digest.

Eileen Davisdon is about to release her first book.

The Bold and the Beautiful star has drawn on her experience in the daytime world to pen, “Death in Daytime,” the first in a series of mystery novels written by the actress and centers=ing around the murder of the head writer of a soap opera called, The Yearning Tide.

A quick synopsis of this initial effort: After a murder, the soap opera's leading lady becomes the main suspect in the crime, as she sets out to discover who truly killed the show's writer.

While Davidson certainly has a wealth of experience to pull from during her twenty plus years portraying characters on The Young and the Restless, Santa Barbara, Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful, she insists her story doesn’t reflect any specific individual or event from her real life.

You can pre-order the book, which comes out October 7, via Amazon.

Once again, Eileen Davidson (The Bold and the Beautiful) will cross-over to The Young and the Restless later this week.

Look for Ashley to appear in Genoa City on June 19 and 20.

Eileen Davidson will be returning to The Young and the Restless for a three-day arc storyline beginning on Friday, December 28 and running through Wednesday, January 3.

The 48-year-old soap opera veteran will portraying her signature character, Ashley Abbott.

Davidson was cast on the long-running drama in 1982. As the original Ashley, Davidson was an integral part of show. After seven years of playing the character, though, she left The Young and the Restless in February 1989, which prompted the producers to continue featuring the character with a look-alike actress.

Following several appearances on primetime TV, Davidson returned to the soap world in the the role of Kelly Capwell on Santa Barbara; she then left and landed the part od Kristen Blake on Days of Our Lives in May 1993.

Five years later, Davidson came back to The Young and the Restless again... only to be released from the series due to lack of storylines for her character. She was last seen as Ashley on January 11.

In a surprise move three months later, Davidson signed a three-year contract with sister soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, once more portraying Ashley Abbott, a role she continues to wow viewers with to this day.