Of Hooks and Hands

Released on July 10, 2026

London gave him a name.

The sea made him a legend.

A boy falls from the sky into the soot-choked alleys of Victorian London with no memory of who he is; only dreams of the sky and an aching longing for someplace just beyond the horizon.

Raised in the brutal halls of Ironharbor Hall for Wayward Boys and hardened at the forge, James grows into a man of iron will and restless ambition. Yet no matter how many years pass, he cannot shake the feeling that he was meant for the open sky, not the weight of the world below.

While searching for the roots of that compulsion, the sea offers him something the earth never could: freedom.

As a sailor aboard the Sea Nymph, James discovers an uncanny gift for reading the wind and surviving the impossible. Rising from orphan to captain, he leads his crew beyond the edges of every known map in pursuit of strange waters, impossible stars, and whispers of a forgotten place that calls to him in dreams.

Then he finds it.

Neverland.

But the island is not the paradise of childhood stories. Beneath its beauty lurks something ancient and hungry. A ticking creature stalks the shores. Time fractures. Shadows refuse to stay attached to those who cast them. And waiting at the heart of the island is a laughing child in green who seems to embody everything James has lost.

Peter Pan.

As obsession turns to war, James is forced to confront a terrifying truth: the line between hero and villain is far thinner than he ever imagined.

Epic, haunting, and woven with salt spray, starlight, and tragedy, Of Hooks and Hands reimagines the legend of Captain Hook as a mythic tale of identity, loss, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of refusing to let go of the sky.