Bonnie ( Kat Graham ) moves to Mystick Falls to get a job and to live with her aunt and two cousins. They are helpers in a large house. Damon ( Ian Somerhalder ) is the son-in-law of the house. He and his wife have a car accident after he tells her he wants a divorce. She is left in a coma for years. He meets Bonnie and they fall in love and Bonnie is unaware that his wife is still alive.
When Elena comes out of the coma she appears to have forgotten the last unhappy years of her life before the accident and is obsessed with Damon.