No Starling shall ever know the pleasure of a Happily Ever After.

Kit Starling is returning to Neverland without Peter Pan, something she promised she would never do. But the island is falling apart, Lost Boys have been captured, Knave is under a curse, and Alice and Hook are getting closer to finding the Hideout every day. Worst of all, the Starling Curse is hanging over her, threatening to take away her true love because of mistakes made by her father and his brothers. If she can take a head start and make it back to Neverland without Peter, maybe she can get ahead of the Starling Curse. Maybe she can end all of this without losing anyone else.