"You can't lay out ten years on a table like you arrange Scrabble letters" - Patrick Bruel.
Edward, an aspiring actor from London, was flying west attempting to conquer Hollywood.
Leïla, a young marketing executive living in Casablanca, was heading to San Francisco for a week of corporate training.
She almost missed her connecting flight via London.
He was not supposed to be on that plane.
But fate has a way of bringing people together, and as they sat next to each other for the eleven-hour flight, they talked about their hopes and dreams and shared their most intimate secrets, persuaded they would never in a million years meet again.
Fast forward ten years later as fate meddles one more time, bringing them together on the top of a hill overlooking the London skyline.
But is it possible for Edward and Leïla to pick up where they left off?
TEN YEARS is a story of lost and found, of parallel lives and chance encounters, of sense battling with sensibility, and heart with reason.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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What happens when you put 2 real people in a fictional situation and let them respond as they naturally would? Well, in this case, The Unexpected happens. This is the true love story that never happened, with genuine dialogue and communication that unfolded between 2 friends.
Elle is a journalist in Toronto, stuck under the controlling nature of her overbearing editor. Jack is a Sgt. in Britain's Royal Air Force who meets her when she's forced into writing a series about online dating.
As they begin to communicate, they're both fully confident that their mutual reluctance for a relationship is safe because of their distance and circumstances. That is until, unexpectedly, they are made to deal with the reality of the relationship they've created when they find themselves thrown together in the middle of a war zone. Eventually, they begin to navigate the complicated nature of their lives as they head towards an ending neither of them ever wanted or saw coming.
***This story is fictional any comments or opinions given within are fictional. Any resemblance, to real events and to any people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.