Marlena Evans never imagined her carefully ordered world would be ripped from beneath her, nor that she would wake to the cold press of a blade at her throat and the smoldering gaze of a man who is both her captor and her savior. In a world where the past doesn't stay buried, where demons don't die, and where love is the most dangerous trap of all, they must decide-will they fight their fate or surrender to the storm that is pulling them under? ---------- This story is set in 1999!

The storyline follows the plot of episode 13 of season 8, "if/then". Involves a lot of what happened after the episode with Meredith, Alex and April.

After Mexico, John left Salem without a word. Nearly a year later, a chance encounter in San Francisco brings John and Marlena together for one night, that changes everything.