The Shadow King

The year is 1911, and nineteen-year-old Wendy Darley has long outgrown her childhood fascination with her uncle Jim Barrie’s stories about Peter Pan.
Instead of dreaming of faeries, pirates, living shadows, and swordfights, Wendy now keeps the peace at home, struggling to balance her own aspirations with her family's upper-class ambitions. But however much she might pretend otherwise, her uncle's stories had their basis in reality, and Wendy's ordinary life might be her most elaborate game...