St. Catherine's is a place for misfits, for the forgotten, and it is also the only home James Cook has ever known. Abandoned on the front steps as an infant, James is raised by Sister Maddie who loves him like the mother he never knew. Growing up at St. Catherine's, James battles one illness after another, and spends most of his time in the infirmary. One night, a young boy is delivered to St. Catherine's in the arms of his distraught mother. The boy, Peter, is mischievous and James tries his hardest to stay as far away from him, and his band of merry followers, as possible. The younger boys at St. Catherine's are drawn to the charismatic Peter, but James, being older and in his humble opinion, wiser, is not recruited so easily. As the two become more closely acquainted, Peter reveals to James that he has a secret. This secret will turn James' life upside down and set he and Peter on a collision course with destiny in that far of place known to children and dreamers...Neverland. Before he was Captain Hook, he was simply James Cook, and as it turns out, he was not such a dastardly villain after all. Join some of the most beloved characters in literature as their roots are laid bare and the truth of their humble beginnings is revealed.

After the disappearance of his father, young Finn Cook is taken to a quiet London neighborhood to be cared for by his Aunt Wendy, who keeps an ever watchful eye on him. As Finn grows from a boy into a young man he watches his beloved aunt undergo a shocking and mysterious transformation. She is aging rapidly and goes from a vibrant young woman to a bedridden shell of her former self in the span of only fifteen years. As the end grows near, and just when Finn has accepted that the reaper will rip from him the only real family he has left, something strange and unexpected takes place. One evening, he hears a man's voice urging Wendy to leave with him at once. When he barrels into her bedroom to investigate, Finn finds her gone, disappeared into thin air. Finn has only just begun to uncover the secrets of his past when he is befriended by the swarthy Captain James Hook and whisked off to Neverland, the backdrop of the fairy tales Wendy has told him all his life and the place where he discovers a mystery that spans generations and involves everyone Finn has ever loved. Is Captain Hook friend of foe? Is Wendy lost to Finn forever? And is Finn brave and faithful enough to take on the brat-prince of Neverland, Peter Pan, in a quest to bring together what is left of his fractured family? Only time will tell. And in Neverland, time is the one thing there is plenty of.