A Storybrooke Halloween

Four years after the Christmas that changed everything. Emma Nolan, now Sergeant Swan, has traded her sheriff's badge for an Army uniform. Stationed in New England as a training NCO after tours in Kuwait, Germany, and South Korea, she has built a new life defined by routine, leadership, and the quiet companionship of her girlfriend, Jordan Reyes, a field journalist who covers military human-interest stories for a national publication. But when Emma receives a call that her sister Ashley's heart condition has worsened and a transplant may be her only chance, she's forced to return to the town she swore she'd never see again.

Back in Storybrooke, autumn clings to the town like a haunting. The streets glow with pumpkin light, fog curls along the harbor, and the annual Halloween festival looms larger than ever. Regina Mills-now a composed, unshakable mayor-has spent the last four years turning chaos into order, but Emma's return stirs memories neither of them buried as deeply as they thought. What begins as a family visit becomes a collision of past and present when a harmless Halloween prank spirals into mass panic, reviving the town's old fears of curses and ghosts. As Storybrooke unravels under the weight of its own shadows, Emma must choose between duty and heart, truth and illusion-and whether the woman she left behind is still part of the home she's been running from.