"All this has happened before, and it will happen again. But this time it happened in London. It happened on a quiet street in Bloomsbury. That corner house over there is the home of the Darling family. And Peter Pan chose this particular house because there were people here who believed in him."

It is most likely that as a child you heard the story of Peter Pan, most children have. It has been told by mothers all over England for centuries, and then later brought over to America to be told by mothers there. However, one line of children found the accounts quite realistic. As the stories and tales of Peter Pan were soon lost over time, they remained quite intact in any Darling household. Added to these enjoyable tales was the adventure of Peter and Wendy. Wendy quite frequently told Pan stories to her children Jane and Daniel, including her own adventure with the young boy. One night her daughter had the luck of being whisked away to Neverland herself by the band of pirates. Jane's story had been added to the repertoire of Neverland stories and the rest is history. Jane's daughter, Margaret, had been the first Darling woman to start documenting the stories of her mother and grandmother, after she herself had journeyed to Neverland. Since then, each Darling lady would be drawn to Neverland when the time was right. Whether the pirates, Indians, or Peter Pan himself had fetched them to come along for the ride. It was destiny, and had become a tradition of sorts; each Darling female, sometimes accompanied by brothers, would grow up having heard the stories of Peter Pan, meet Peter Pan, and then document their own story to be told for generations. Peter had met his share of Darling types over the years. Most were uptight, far too gorwn up for their age, leaving Peter to loosen them up to have fun. After all, the lost boys needed a mother every now and then, one that wasn't fun just wouldn't do.

The generations passed and passed. Neverland and its inhabitants remained the same. The last Darling to visit Peter had been Angela Wendy Jessica Darling. Angela and Peter had the biggest adventure! Together they had saved the lost boys from an angry Indian village after they had accidentally knocked over a mile long row of teepees. Angela had gone home to London, documented her story, and then grown up, as all Darling women eventually do.

This is the story of Samantha Elizabeth Wendy Barkley. Having "Wendy" somewhere in their name identified all Darling women, but Samantha was no average Darling woman. For one thing, Samantha Elizabeth Wendy Barkley was known by everyone as simply Sam. You see, after Angela had grown up to become a beautiful young woman, she had been the first in her family to move to America, making her daughter the first ever Darling woman to be born and raised in New York City. Sam had been very close with her mother when she was younger, but after her parents had divorced and her dad moved to California, she found herself being forced to grow up rather quickly. There was once a time that Sam would long for the day it was her turn to venture into Neverland, and would dream of the many possible ways for Peter Pan to seek her out. But that was a while ago, all the other Darling women had been between 9 or 11 when Pan had visited them, by the time Sam had turned 12 and a half she had given up dreaming about swimming with mermaids and dancing with Indians. Sam Barkley was now a strong and independent New York woman who could walk the streets fear free. She was interested in one thing only, and that was adventure (though her mother regarded her as an adrenaline junkie). She didn't have the musical, athletic, or artistic ability most of her ancestors had, but one thing was for sure, Sam could get herself out of any situation. It was 2013 in America and the world was her oyster. She didn't need pirates or fairies to have an adventure, but Neverland had a habit of attracting those who needed it most, whether they knew it or not.