where i’ll be waiting, novel synopsis

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The leaves are falling over a sleepy New England suburb but a storm is surging in Wendy as she comes face to face with her true love for the first time, Peter Pan. As she embarks on what she believes to be an innocent high school romance the truth about her past and fate with this eternal boy unravel. Seduced by the alluring Captain Hook who's been taunting her dreams on the idea that her dead mother could in fact be alive she boards the Jolly Roger and takes off for Neverland on a nightmarish journey of self-discovery that's anything but jovial. Uncovering a long buried mystery about the women in her family and their turns in Never Land lead her to the realization that her mother has been captive in this parallel world and it's now up to her to set her free. The clock in the belly of the beast is ticking as her time in Never Land is wreaking havoc on her existence on earth. Monstrous mermaids, sadistic pirates, savage Indians, maniac Lost Boys, jealous fairies and of course her own fears provide many an obstacles for her to stumble over while accepting her destiny in this new world and running from the love that's so desperately trying to save her before she too becomes a prisoner of ill fate but Wendy knows the truth, the truth her grandmother and her mother didn’t, that she must save herself.