Kate Sullivan knows how to handle turbulence. A former military pilot, she's independent, capable, and accustomed to being in control. She reads a letter a teen wrote to her grandfather. The girl seems a little lost, and she comes to Storybrook to be a friend. But life in Storybrook has a way of sending even the best-laid flight plans off course. Jonah Atkinson is an attorney and widowed father of a teen. When his daughter Piper invites some pilot to stay at their house, he's not thrilled. But it's better than her involvement with a boy.

In order to keep an eye on Piper when she goes on a date with Colt Rawlins, he recruits Kate to pretend they're fake dating. Once again in Storybrook, rules were made to be broken. Rules for Fake Dating is a closed-door small-town romantic comedy about unexpected love, new beginnings, and what happens when a fake relationship becomes the real thing.