When love and pain intersect, and life altering decisions aren't easy. Sometimes saying goodbye is easier than actually letting go. Set in 1991, this retelling of John, Marlena, Isabella, and Roman's story comes after Mexico. It examines the pain of abandonment that comes from a father saying goodbye, the ultimate betrayal, a love denied, and the impact of C-PTSD on a man who refuses to acknowledge he needs help coping with seven years of torture.

An AU rewrite of the Salem Strangler storyline with several twists and turns. How would it play out if John Black came to Salem in 1982?

It's Mother's Day. John shows Marlena who's her daddy.

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

An AU story about Marlena's 1993 pregnancy. The blood test was inconclusive, John sends Kristen packing, and Sami never witnessed anything. A story of healing, and the final acceptance that fate is out of our hands.

A one-shot short story set in 1992. Marlena is married to Roman and John is married to Isabella, who never got cancer so never died. Everything else is the same as the show. This short story is set on the night that Stella spiked Marlena's drink at Wings but it ends quite differently...

What is Isabella never existed and John was left alone in Mexico assuming Marlena had chosen Roman? Would Marlena show her true colors? And would Romans faults come to light?

What happened in Lugano, Switzerland when Salem's favorite couple, John and Marlena left in 2008? Touch Taste Feel is a true love story chronicling John's fight to returning to the man that he use to be with the love of his life at his side.

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!

Post Marlena's 1992 return to Salem. Marlena made the decision to give her marriage to Roman a try, but is struggling. John, putting his own pain aside, is frequently there to help her. Thank you to Ms. Goldie for the cover art and for inspiring me to revise and continue this story!