The mention of acquiring a black spot would send shivers down the most hardened pirate's spine, and lucky Killian Jones is the newest to be marked for death. Banished back to the old world, he sets out to find a soul of more value than his own, and stumbles upon a dead kingdom, and its sole occupant-a sharp-witted princess, with an even sharper tongue.

Hook's ongoing obsession with revenge leaves him once again on his own, without a ship, without a crew, without a hope. Each decision he makes seems to lead him down the darker path, and on to Storybrooke. Will he achieve his self-made destiny? Or will a ghost from his past show him a different way?