Laura Hetzel

Neon Neverland Laura Hetzel

"Did you really sell your soul to the devil?"Wendy Holland has spent all of her seventeen years living in a trailer in Odessa, Texas with her alcoholic mother. On a hot summer night, Peter comes into her bedroom through the window and offers her everything she ever dreamed of: passion, travel and adventure. She flies away with him, never considering the consequences. Peter Saxon, a teenage guitar prodigy on the verge of international stardom, whisks Wendy away to the Neverland Club in Seattle, Washington, where he and his band, The Lost Boys, have a three month residency. In the glittery rock world of 1983, he is about to rewrite the sound and history of the sexually fueled glam rock scene, filled with guitar solos that pierce into the night. But something isn't quite right. Peter and Wendy are both hiding secrets that could implode their relationship and threaten his burgeoning career. In the rainy, neon bright nights, his band attracts record numbers of fans to Neverland, but off stage there are whispers that if you go upstairs into his Purple Room there are drugs, sex parties and adventures that will change your life forever. A tribute to 1980s rock, to the Peter Pan myth, and a nod to the legend of fame promised for price at the crossroads, Neon Neverland is about the magic of the memory of youth. It's a story of first love, of adventure and of all things lost to time. It is a story of hero worship and ruin. Mostly, it is a story of how dreams are a real place that contain memories that will never grow old.