Almu Costa 🤍

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Needing a fresh start, Emma moves to Storybrooke. It’s a small, picturesque town that her cousin had settled in just a few years before. Wanting to be close to family, but far away from the past she wants to forget, she purchases an old bar that has a reputation for being haunted.

Not one to believe in ghosts, she rolls her eyes at the notion… until she meets Killian Jones. The former bartender who disappeared years before.

As she gets to know the snarky spirit, she learns his story, unravels his past, and realizes that everything might not be what it seems.

Chapter One

Emma Swan didn’t believe in ghost stories. It didn’t matter that the entire town warned her about the old building (this is where she’s revitalizing an old bar?), she just couldn’t buy into the nonsense. Was the previous owner’s story sad and somewhat mysterious? Sure. But his disappearance wasn’t anything weird. He disappeared before most of the people telling his story were even born.

So in her eyes, it was nothing more than an urban legend. A cold case that lingered over the town like a bad memory. 

She could relate to that. There were a million bad memories she was attempting to escape. The story of Killian Jones just helped her get a prime spot in town at a cheap price. It was perfect. She’d fix up the old bar and people would see that it was just another building.

But with the best drinks in town.

At least, that’s what she hoped. 

Her neighbor was the town shrink, and even though they shared a wall, even he had his reservations about the place.