"Tell me, Gwen," Peter says, looking at me with his impossible green eyes. "Are you afraid of the dark?"
"No." I say, and I'm lying. But he pretends that I'm not, and I pretend not to notice, and the portal zips shut behind us. No going back now.
"Welcome," the hollow children say, as I follow Peter through the crowd. "Welcome to Neverland, Gwendolyn. Welcome to the World of Unhappy Endings."
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When Gwendolyn McKinnith gets lost in the stacks of the Library of Congress, she never expects to find an ancient book stuffed into a random, hidden corner. It's called the Book of Unhappy Endings, and it seems to call to her, begging her to take it home.
But when Gwen opens the Book, bad things start to happen in her life, and all the light begins to bleed from her world. Creatures of Nightmare start to tear at the very fabric of time and nothing anyone tries is able to stop them.
Then, a young man shows up in Gwen's bedroom; he is tall and beautiful and elfin, and there are shadows in his brilliant green eyes. He tells her that he is Peter Pan, and he needs her to come with him to Neverland or her world will descend into anarchy.
Gwen wants to save the world, but to do that, she'll have to enter the Book with Peter and never come out again. She'll have to give up everything; her family, her friends, her life.
Even her chance at Happily Ever After.
Book Two in the Neverland Archives (they do NOT have to be read in order! This is purely for the history and timeline of Neverland).
A girl doomed before her own birth to be violently wanted by every person in her entire world, and then imprisoned for her entire life starting at age 5, of course wants nothing more than to escape. His Shadow is called to her, and takes her to Neverland, where she gets her freedom. And when you give an evil boy an innocent girl, opposites attract.
I love the TV series, but I think Peter Pan should get to love somebody, so here's who and here's how they fell in love, as I believe it should go. Sorry for the bad summary, I promise the story is better!
*Rating cautious, may change for some chapters TBA
**I do not own the Once Upon a Time TV series, nor do I own their characters. I do own this story, and my main female character.
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