Emma Swan must marry her true love by her twenty-fifth birthday or she will have her crown taken away and be banished from her kingdom. Her parents give her until her twenty-fourth birthday before they step in and arrange a marriage for her to Prince Neil. While trying to learn to love Neil, Emma crosses paths with the famous Captain Hook.

She loved him as an adolescent, he admired her from afar; each thought their difference in station an insurmountable obstacle. Years later, Princess Emma and Lt. Killian Jones enter into a marriage of convenience, having long ago given up on obtaining the other's love. Can they overcome tragedy and re-discover each other again? Rated M for sex, mature themes, triggers.