Peter Pan is an arrogant little wanker Sorry, not sorry, you’d say it too if you’d ever been to Neverland. I know the big story is that Wendy Darling is the first girl to end up on Neverland because girls are too smart to fall out of their prams. I’m living proof that’s a lie. Wendy was just the first time Peter actually asked permission before he took a girl to Neverland to be his mother. I guess he learned his lesson from me. He kidnapped me from my bed while I was sleeping and just expected me to be his mother. I’d rather be a Lost Boy than his mother. Peter eventually gave up on me. He lost a mother and two Lost Boys that day that left with me. I’ve been living away from Peter Pan. Me and my Lost Boys are now the Wildlings. We even have a fairy with us named Coale, who is a blacksmith fairy, but prefers making explosives. Coale and Blaize get along marvelously as Blaize loves to play with fire. But we’ve committed the one crime on Neverland Peter won’t forgive. An instant death sentence for anyone on Neverland no matter how close to Peter you are. We already have one strike against us leaving him. We’ve now committed the ultimate Neverland sin. We woke up one morning and we’ve all grown up. There is a legend on Neverland, someone Peter hates. Someone no one knows where to find. Someone everyone on Neverland only knows as the hook nosed hag. If she’s an old woman on Neverland, then she either predates Peter or she survived his culling. We have to stay out of Peter’s way and find this mysterious hag. We find some old villains who end up not being villains. Captain Hook is not dead and may have information on the hag. We only have three days before Peter’s Spring Cleaning is over and he returns Wendy’s descendant back home. After that, he will be on the hunt for our blood. We don’t even know if the hag survived Peter’s culling. If not, everyone who has grown up on Neverland has died by Peter’s blade.

My story could banish me from Neverland and the two most important women in my life. But they’ve asked for it, and I can’t tell them no. We’ve settled down to a Peter Pan free Neverland. I’ve even gone back to teaching. I think everyone’s favorite part of the night is our story time. But Jade and Elise have asked for my story. Everything about my past from before I got to Neverland and the full story about what happened between me and Peter Pan. I’m not proud of some of the things that evil boy brought out in me. The Queen of the Fairies and her entire court as well as all of the mermaids have turned out to hear my story. Queen Mab could send me home and take me away from my daughter and my love if she deems my sins too great. This is my story. It’s the story of how the youngest son of a Lord became a pirate. It’s the story of how James Barrett Cunningham became the infamous pirate James Hook. It’s the story of how James Hook became simply Jas of Neverland and finally found the place he finally felt he belonged. But are the crimes of James Barrett Cunningham and James Hook enough for me as simply Jas to have to leave Neverland for good?

It was only supposed to be one night in Neverland with the boy from my dreams. But Peter Pan is a thing of nightmares. He promised. He swore he would take me home and it would only be one night. He even said Tink would give me fairy dust to prove to my papa Neverland was real. He claimed the fairies specifically chose me because my dreams built a bridge to Neverland and I was special. Peter lied. No one knew I was coming. Tinkerbell refuses to talk to me. The mermaids aren’t even here to greet me. Then, things got ugly. Peter forced me to sleep on the dirt floor with just a scrap of blanket. I awoke to chaos—blood all over the floor, Peter viciously stabbing a Lost Boy, and Tinkerbell laughing like she’s utterly insane. And we’ve all grown up somehow. My Lost Boys have been children for a long time, but I really am only eleven! They are insistent I get the childhood that was stolen from me. But years pass. We live in fear of Peter finding us. Now, there is a new threat. A pirate with a hook for a hand knows my name and he’s tearing up Neverland to find me. I’ve got threats all over Neverland. It’s been sixty years. I’m no longer an eleven year old trapped in the body of a twenty year old. Things are getting complicated with my Lost Boys and my fairy. They all want to be my husbands. I have to sort my feelings while we watch the beaches for Peter and Captain Hook because Peter and the pirate both want to kill me.