故事情节由《迷失》制片人构思,描述了一个发生在现代社会里的“黑色童话故事”。
28岁的Emma(詹妮弗·莫里森 Jennifer Morrison 饰)从小就被父母抛弃,一生都靠自己的努力生活。突然有一天10年前送给别人收养的儿子Henry(杰瑞德·吉尔摩尔 Jared Gilmore 饰)找上门来向她求援。声称Emma来自一个带有童话色彩的平行世界,她是白雪公主和白马王子失踪的女儿!童话书的所有人都被邪恶女王(拉娜·帕瑞拉 Lana Parrilla 饰)的诅咒所困,Emma是唯一能解除诅咒的人。Emma对此嗤之以鼻,并将Henry送回了小镇Story Book。奇怪的是,Henry和这座小镇对Emma来说有一种强烈的“吸引力”。她在镇上的所见所闻令她开始怀疑这里的确隐藏着一股不为人知的神秘力量--难道这里真的是Henry所说的童话世界?
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.