I Know this is a little late in answering you but yes Julia
is back on AMC. Noah was killed while in witness protection so Julia ran away to track down his killer. While looking for help she contacted his best friend who admitted that he was the one who killed Noah. He was later killed by accident in a struggle with Zach Slater, former lover of her sister Maria when Maria was missing and thought dead. Ya gotta a lot of catching up to do. Also Dixie is back from the dead but is not really Dixie, half sister playing the part, but I feel its because AMC is hoping to snag back Cady since she recently left the other soap she was starring on. Lots of dead people coming back to life on AMC but what would a soap opera be without that. LOL