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?

His name is Damon Salvatore. He falls like an angel from the sky, braving the fire and flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. Fellow smokejumper Elena Gilbert is fearless yet slow to trust and harbors a secret that threatens to burn a brand on all of their hearts.

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can." *Happy Birthday Salvatoreboys4ever*

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**

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?

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.

An all-swallowing wave, not unlike a surf comber on a beach, was rushing up the boat deck, enveloping passengers, boats, and everything that lay in its path. A mass wail rose from those it engulfed. "All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry."

Damon thought the worst thing he'd ever have to endure was Elena's sudden disappearance. Little did he realize that her kidnapping was only the opening salvo in the nightmare that was to follow.