Starting on June 8, 2006, Bonner was a participant in the SOAPnet reality series I Wanna Be a Soap Star 3, in which contestants compete in various acting challenges for a 13-week contract role on a daytime drama.

The winner, Mike Jerome, went on to portray Ted Osbourne on One Life to Live from August 11, 2006, to November 2, 2006, when the character was killed off.

One Life to Live subsequently offered Bonner the role of Talia, a police officer involved in the investigation of Osbourne's death.

She begins working closely with Detective Antonio Vega, with whom she forms and easy friendship and shares her experiences as a member of New York City Police Department on duty in Lower Manhattan on the day of the September 11 attacks.

In late March 2007, Talia, Antonio, and Acting District Attorney Evangeline Williamson figure out that the string of arsons plaguing Llanview are being perpetrated by a white supremacist group known as "One Pure People".

The reserved Talia is determined to not let on how she feels, believing that Antonio is reeling from the end of his marriage, and that any romantic tension would ruin their friendship and their professional relationship.

Their personal and professional relationship begins to disintegrate, and after a few awkward exchanges at work, Talia requests a transfer to the quiet neighboring township of Cherryvale.

The Commissioner enlists Antonio in his plot to steal the Crown Jewels of Mendorra while they are in police custody but is murdered on June 12, 2008, before he can be brought to justice.

On June 26, 2008, Talia inexplicably aids Jonas Chamberlain, the Ambassador to the U.S. from the European principality of Mendorra, in kidnapping her roommate Sarah Roberts.

Antonio, Sarah and Cristian later return; they drug Carlo and Jonas and stage them in bed together, and Talia leads a team of reporters to "discover" the scene.