A love too powerful for the spotlight. A goodbye she never wanted to say. Echo of Almost is a sweeping story of first takes and final cuts, of two actors who played lovers for decades - and spent a lifetime pretending it wasn't real. Delilah Hayes was never meant to fall in love with her co-star. But from the moment Dylan stepped onto the soundstage of THE OATH, something shifted. Their characters, Mara and Jonathan, burned up the screen-but it was what happened between takes that changed everything. What began as late-night rehearsals and secret glances spiraled into the kind of love that redefines a life. But when Dylan's past catches up with him, Delilah is the one who makes the impossible choice. She lets him go-not because she stops loving him, but because she believes she can't give him, what he now needs. Now, years later, Dylan is gone. The world knows him as a television icon, half of a legendary onscreen pairing. But only Delilah knows the truth of what they shared. As Delilah opens the letter he left behind, she's pulled back into the fire of their beginnings - the auditions and the stolen weekends, the passion and the silences, the final scene that was never just a scene. And in remembering him, she is forced to confront not just the love they lived, but the choices they never stopped making. Echo of Almost is the story of a once-in-a-lifetime connection tested by timing, sacrifice, and love too deep to ever really fade. It's about the moments we carry, the truths we bury, and the souls we never stop searching for-even when goodbye is the only word left to say. ------- (if you are a J&M fan read it with them in mind) Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Christmas is a busy time of the year for Dr Marlena Evans Black... John knows just what she wants.

An Aremid canon divergence story rewritten with a John and Marlena love story at its center.

1992 Canon Divergeance - Marlena and John are friends, but they used to be much more. What happens as they attempt to navigate their new lives, but they continue to be drawn to each each other? Roman is pulled into the Raffi Torres case, leaving Marlena and the children unprotected. John steps in, taking care of the family that was once his. Will the line between friendship and lover be blurred?

John and Marlena chose separate paths in Mexico, staying friends but choosing to move on with other people. Isabella's death, and Roman's infidelity push them back together. When they need each other the most, two friends come together and realize that maybe they were always inevitable.

Their love was rumored fact and fiction, blurring the lines between reel and real. After a decade apart, John Black, a retired baseball player and now Hollywood star, reaches out to Marlena Evans with an opportunity she cannot refuse. The challenge? They must contend with feelings of longing and attraction, leading to an arrangement.