In this startling new vision of a cultural classic, Wendy intends to live happily ever after with Peter Pan. But Time, like this tale, behaves in a most unsettling way. As Wendy mothers the Lost Boys in Neverland, they thrive on adventure. She struggles to keep her boys safe from the Island's many hazards, but she finds a more subtle threat encroaching from an unexpected quarter.]] The children are growing up, and only Peter knows the punishment.

All Lexis has ever wanted is to feel a part of a family after having been given up for adoption at birth. Everyone she meets seems to have an aversion to her that she could never explain, until a stranger begins to haunt her dreams. A young man named Donovan, who Lexis thinks is just a figment of her imagination, becomes very real when they meet one night. Soon after, all the painful memories she buried from her childhood come crashing back; strange, inhuman abilities, shadows stalking her, and a deep need she can't understand. With Donovan's help, Lexis slowly learns that her life was created for something bigger and that she was always meant to be the true predator of the dead.