Never

Never by Jessa Hastings

"There is a boy of legend in the tales passed down in my family. He glides on the coattails of the sun, rides the wind, and freedom runs through his veins. His heart―so the legend goes―is wild.

The boy lived in a faraway land tucked behind a star, where pirates were still true, mermaids didn't hide, and fairies flew through the air like autumn leaves on a windy day. He took my mother there, just like he took my grandmother, and my great-grandmother.

Just as he would come for me."

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Swept away from her life in London to a place beyond the stars, Wendy's granddaughter Daphne is torn between the boy of legend―Peter Pan, whose fate is irrevocably intertwined with her family's―and Jem Hook, the pirate who has captured her heart against all her better judgement.

Filled with hope and heartbreak, beauty and betrayal, dreams and devastating reality, Never asks: Can we ever be free while we're holding on to the past? And what would happen if―just once―we truly let go?