"A dark, breathtaking reimagining of a legend we thought we knew. Between the Stars is the origin story Peter Pan deserves — raw, visceral, and impossible to put down."He was never just a boy who wouldn't grow up. He was a boy the world tried to destroy first.
Peter Pan is fierce, reckless, and driven by a hunger that poverty, cruelty, and loss could never fully extinguish. Raised on the filthy streets of Victorian London as one of Fagin's pickpockets — running alongside Oliver Twist, the Artful Dodger, and the forgotten boys of the East End — he learned early that the world had no use for children like him. The deeper he sinks into hunger, cold, and survival, the more he understands a brutal truth: the only way to matter is to take what the world refuses to give.
In a world of coal smoke and cruelty, where childhood is a luxury only the wealthy can afford, Peter makes a single desperate wish to the stars — and something ancient answers. Neverland is no fairy tale. It is a living, breathing island of wild jungles, warring tribes, murderous pirates, and magic older than memory. It is beautiful. It is dangerous. And it is the only place Peter has ever truly belonged.
Yet crossing paths with Tinker Bell — fierce, jealous, and bound by laws older than time — changes everything. She did not come to save him. She came because a wish that pure could not go unanswered. What grows between them is tested at every turn by the arrival of the Lost Boys, the warrior Tiger Lily, the legendary Sinbad the Sailor, and the most feared pirate to ever sail the seas.
When Captain Hook's treachery costs Peter something irreplaceable, it forces him to confront the darkest edges of his own nature — his vanity, his rage, and his terrifying capacity for violence. Every battle he wins carves his legend deeper into the bones of the island. But every grave he digs makes Neverland feel smaller.
When the island itself begins to fade and the person he loves most is torn away by forces beyond even his power, Peter must make a choice no legend ever prepares you for: hold on, or let go.
With the stakes higher than any pirate's blade, the answer will take him further from home than he ever imagined.
If you loved the dark fairy tale retellings of Christina Henry or the mythic ambition of Gregory Maguire, Between the Stars is the book you have been waiting for.
Grab your copy today — and find out where the story of Peter Pan truly begins.
