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The lady of the Jolly Roger by Trovi03
Fandoms: Peter Pan & Related Fandoms, Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
14 May 2026
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Summary
History, written by boys who never grew up, often gets women wrong. This is the version that doesn't.
By 1721, Captain James Hook has terrorized the Neverland sea for thirty years. She has the red coat, the ship, the crew, and an exhausting, endless feud with Peter Pan. She also has thirty years of logs and a bone-deep boredom she fears is permanent.
Everything shifts when the Artemisia runs aground. Captain Marguerite Voss—pragmatist and merchant—comes aboard the Jolly Roger as a guest, not a prisoner. James doesn’t do prisoners.
Marguerite is carrying something considerably more dangerous than cargo: the twenty-year archive of her dead partner Cecilia, who spent her life cataloguing the names and networks of the Atlantic slave trade and left it for someone to use. Thomas Bellamy wants those documents. So does a ship called the Sovereign and a man named Gravois. And Neverland, which has been waiting thirty years to be interested in something again, has decided that this is its moment.
James Hook built a life without apology in the only place that allowed it. She wasn't looking for anything more, but she finds it anyway.