In March 2017, she is released from prison for good behaviour but with an electronic tracking device on her ankle. She reunites and clashes with Toyah due to their feud fourteen years earlier. In May 2017, she accompanies Aidan to a business lunch where she pretends to be Eva however she needs to get home before her curfew ends and storms out of the restaurant after an argument with Aidan. She is seen walking alongside the road by Aidan who tempts her into his car for a lift home as she doesn't want to go back to prison. Once they get back to Maria's just in time before her curfew ends they have sex and afterwards she tells him he can stay with Eva and that they can carry on having an affair behind her back but Maria is heartbroken when he and Eva get engaged, and although at first she insists their affair is over; Maria carries on secretly meeting Aidan. He ends the affair once Eva tells Aidan she is pregnant. Eva annoys Maria and asks her to plan her wedding. Eva starts humiliating Maria at her hen party, where she learns that Eva has lied about her pregnancy when Maria finds her fake baby scans. After lying saying she cannot go to the wedding, Maria sneaks to the hotel instead and puts a picture of the fake scans in the guests gift bags, however after being locked in the bathroom by Toyah, Maria manages to be let out by hotel staff and storms into the ceremony exposing Eva's fake pregnancy to Aidan and the rest of the wedding guests.