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Hook: Dead to Rights

Melissa SnarkSeptember 25, 2018

Nordic Lights Press

"All children, except one, grow up."

~J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

No one knows this better than I do—but I also understand the awful truth. Neverland is a wondrous island of adventure, full of cannibals and crocodiles, fairies and fiends, pirates and peril. Or is it? There, children are free to frolic forever...

Until forever ends.

Neverland is a lovely lie, a seductive fantasy that cloaks sinister secrets. The children Peter Pan abducts aren't allowed to grow up. They're murdered or meet a grimmer fate before they have the chance.

I'm the child who escaped Peter's treachery. I've made it my life's calling to rescue the Lost Boys, even those who don't wish to be saved. But now Pan has a schooner he's using to steal even more children. I'm the only one who can stop him.

Call me Hook. I am the master and commander of a pirate ship, and I'll have my revenge on Peter Pan if it's the last thing I do.

About the author

Author Melissa Snark lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband, three children, and a glaring of litigious felines. She reads and writes fantasy and romance, and is published with The Wild Rose Press & Nordic Lights Press. She is a coffeeoholic, chocoholic, and a serious geek girl. Her Loki’s Wolves series stems from her fascination with wolves and mythology.

Visit her website at www.melissasnark.com.

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Sep 25, 2018

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9781942193296

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