Coming up on Home and Away in Australia, things are heating up in Summer Bay, as a death is confirmed for this year’s season finale.

This week sees Jo (Maddison Brown) continue to be grapple over her feelings, following the arrival in Summer Bay of ex-boyfriend Eddie Shepherd (Stephen Madsen).

Jo had only just entered into a secret romance with Tane (Ethan Browne), after months of will they/won’t they, so was thrown when Eddie turned up to complicate matters.

The two had split two years ago, as Jo struggled to cope with the death of her mother Kristina (Fiona Noonan).

But now that local councillor Craig Wendell (Justin Smith) is awaiting sentencing for causing the accident, as well as the killing of Theo (Matt Evans), Jo had finally found some peace and opened herself to potential romance.

Though David (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) knew that Tane had been on Jo’s radar, he hadn’t approved of him as a potential partner for his daughter, and told Tane that Jo deserved someone less complicated.

When David later bumped into Eddie outside the surf club—who had coincidentally just signed himself up to Back on Track, Remi’s (Adam Rowland) music label—David was quick to invite him over to the house for a catch-up.

But there was no doubt that David was secretly hoping that Jo and Eddie could pick things up where they left off, unaware that Jo was already secretly meeting Tane in the local motel.

With old feelings bubbling to the surface after reconnecting with her ex, Jo was honest with Tane and asked to put things on hold, needing to see if there was still anything there with Eddie.

“There’s so much water under the bridge between her and Eddie, she lost her mum and then their relationship fell apart,” Maddison Brown told TV Week.

“He was her first love, and the ‘what ifs’ of their love story draw her back to him.”

She wasn’t, however, completely honest with Eddie about who Tane was, simply stating that he was her personal trainer.

As Eddie put on his first gig in Salt, he performed a song that was clearly written for Jo following their break-up, only for the moment to be interrupted by Tane who told Jo that he wanted to be with her that night.

Jo was furious at being propositioned in front of her ex, and though Eddie didn’t know the circumstances of what caused Jo to walk out mid-gig, seeing her and Tane talking the following morning told him everything he needed to know.

After Eddie headed to the Beach House to confront Jo, a promo for this week’s episodes shows him asking her to confirm outright that Tane isn’t just “a friend.”