Or perhaps it was in the way that she smiled so coyly at Peter and the way he looked at her in return, with a desire that made Tink’s heart throb painfully. Perhaps it was in the way that she stood, or the way her eyes looked steadily ahead, unflinching. The girl raised her chin, and even from where Tink sat tucked back in the trees, the fairy could see that the girl was different now. The Neverland breeze lifted her brown curls and kissed her cool cheeks. Wendy Darling stood proudly on the platform above Centermost, her gaudy metallic blue floral dress whirling all around her. Tink’s eyes narrowed as she studied the girl. Something about that still didn’t sit right with Tink, but she kept her thoughts to herself. The plain girl from London was back she’d been caught by her brother when Captain Hook pushed her off the plank of the Sudden Night. Tink could taste their anger in the air, feel it in her bones.

Above her head, the leaves were restless with all the unhappiness that had exploded in Neverland. The fairy named Tinkerbell watched from the trees, perched on a tiny sapling branch that quivered underneath her slight frame. Wendy Darling: Shadow is the thrilling final installment in Colleen Oakes’s Wendy Darling Trilogy.

War has come to paradise, and Neverland will never be the same. When the time comes, pirates, mermaids, Lost Boys, and the Darling family will all rise-but if Wendy can’t call the Shadow, they will all be destroyed by Peter’s dark soul. This is a task made nearly impossible by the arrival of Booth, her sweetheart from London and a new pawn in Peter’s manipulative game-a boy whose heart she must break in order to save his life.Īs all of Neverland prepares to fight, Wendy races to untangle Peter’s connection to the Shadow, a secret long buried in the Forsaken Garden. To do this, Wendy must quietly undo Peter from inside his heart while at the same time convincing Tink to betray the twisted love that binds them together. This time, though, Wendy burns not with passion but with a secret: with Hook as her ally, she is there to defeat the evil that lies inside of Peter, the evil that holds all Neverland hostage-the Shadow. Wendy Darling has found herself once again in the arms of charming Peter Pan, the god-child who desires power above all things.

Wendy darling volume 1 stars