Small town teacher Elena Gilbert is going back to the city for her wedding. After a blizzard strikes, she is forced to travel with a stranger who leaves her questioning her future plans.

Separated by a long ago tragedy, Elena unexpectedly stumbles onto Damon.

It's the summer of 1944. With both America and their parents at war, Damon and Elena try to steal a few moments to be together. When the circus arrives for a performance in Hartford, what promises to be an exciting day soon becomes one of terror and mayhem and what will it hold for Damon and Elena?

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give you forever" *Delena Christmas 2018*

Old adversaries reunite when a long missing person's body turns up on her property. Raw passion ignites, haunting memories return and suspicion burns white hot... And which one will claim victory the deadly game of cat and mouse that ensues?

People sometimes meet under the most curious of circumstances. Having heard a radio alert announcing that a huge flaming object has crashed to earth near their home in Grover's Mill, NJ, the Salvatore siblings rush to the site. Among the gathered crowd is a pretty young woman that Damon's never seen before. *Happy Halloween*

"They didn't agree on much. In fact, they didn't agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other." *November Rain* story-verse *Happy Birthday KeepTheFlameBurning*

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

As a little girl Elena was terrified of monsters. Her daddy assured her they didn't exist. She wishes he had told her the whole truth. Monsters do exist, they're not just hiding in closets and under the bed. **Happy Birthday Eos Blaze 0402**

"This life will be good and beautiful but not without heartbreak. In death comes peace, but pain is the cost of living. Like love, it's how we know we're alive." – Elena Gilbert ***HAPPY BIRTHDAY Short on words***

A morning like no other changed the lives of thousands. Desperate cries echoed, prayers went up, heroes were made and then the dust settled. A heart that beat for only one girl stopped and life without him began. Will she be forever wrapped in pain or will she risk her heart again for a new love and hopes of a family for the only part of him that she has left, their son.

July 1916 is a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War raging in Europe. But beach-goers in New Jersey are threatened by an even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Join Damon and Elena on this journey to the past...

Damon Salvatore's plan is simple: hop on his Harley & experience life. The grit. The heat. The passion of the Sturgis motorcycle rally. For two life-changing weeks every August he returns to a certain doe-eyed bartender. Faced with the prospect of losing her forever, can Damon get past his fear of abandonment and let Elena take her place in his heart?

One moment the air is calm; the next the sky explodes in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunge as an unprecedented cold front rips through the plains. When the storm poses a very real threat to their lives, it's up to Miss Gilbert to get the children to safety, the reclusive and enigmatic Mr. Salvatore being their only option.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

On a train bound for Mystic Falls, Elena meets Damon, a soldier on leave for the holidays. The pair are attracted to each other and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance. But with each having secrets... will their pasts deny them a future, one that may or may not come?

When a catastrophic accident leaves him unable to distinguish real from make believe, Damon is thrust into a world that he doesn't understand, his only solace being a mysterious brown-haired girl. Summoning a strength she didn't know she had, Elena vows to find Damon because he not only left her, he also left a part of himself behind.

Will you be there beside me if the world falls apart? And will all of our moments remain in your heart? Will you be there to guide me all the way through? I wonder will you walk by my side and follow my dreams? With the Nazi reign of terror at its zenith, Damon and Elena form an unlikely friendship in WW2 era Czechoslovakia.

Dancing with heartbreak is the strangest thing. It's like playing with fire, you know you'll get burnt but you are still captivated by the flickering flame and the magnetic heart.