The Never King: Vicious Lost Boys, Book 1

Every woman in the Darling family vanishes on her eighteenth birthday — and the ones who return are never quite the same.

Wendy Darling has spent her whole life watching her mother board up windows and reinforce doors, preparing for the night Neverland comes to collect its prize. But no amount of iron bars can keep out a legend. When the Never King materializes from the shadows to claim her, Wendy discovers that the fairy tale her family whispered about in the dark is far more dangerous — and far more seductive — than she ever imagined.

Neverland is nothing like the stories. It's a shadow-soaked world ruled by morally gray men who don't play by anyone's rules, and the Never King has no intention of sending Wendy home. Neither do his ruthless, intoxicating Lost Boys. Wendy is their captive, their obsession — and the key to breaking a curse that has haunted Neverland for centuries.

This dark, breathless reimagining of *Peter Pan* trades pixie dust for something far more intoxicating: the slow, electric burn of a woman who refuses to be a victim and the broken, possessive men who didn't expect her to fight back. With lush romantasy world-building, sharp dark humor, and tension so thick it practically bleeds off the page, *The Never King* is the kind of story that rewires your brain chemistry.

Second star to the right has never looked so dangerous.