Emma Swan doesn’t get intimidated. She gets even. No, wait, that’s not right. Emma Swan doesn’t get intimidated – she gets the scoop. Oh, God, that sounded even worse. Emma was going to have to get better at these inner-monologue pep talks if this was a thing she was going to start doing. Although to be fair, if everything went right here there would be no need for anymore inner-monologue pep talks. She’d have the job, she’d have the byline and she’d be set for life. At least that was the plan. That plan just failed to factor in Killian Jones.

Emma Swan is a writer and for her next top novel she, decides to leave Boston and just drive. She soon finds herself in the town, Storybrooke. Inside this town Belle the local librarian gives Emma a Book to regain her faith in love called 'Once Upon a Time' It's stories literally rewrite anything and everything for Emma as she meets the dangerous yet consuming Hook but is he real?

Emma Swan is from Boston and is about to fly to Dublin, Ireland. Killian Jones comes back home after a while spent in America. Both of them end up in the same plane, sat side by side. That's where everything begins.

Crime reporter, Emma Swan's star is on the rise. So when she is suddenly fired in a "corporate restructuring", she doesn't take it all that well. Cue the drinking. The daytime TV. The unexpected offer to man the phones of her brother's best friend's floundering PI firm. With rent past due, and options limited, Emma agrees. How hard could working for Killian Jones be?