Based on the historical reality of hundreds of escaped slaves across the US, from the Great Dismal Swamp to the mountains of Puerto Rico, who fled into the wilderness to take refuge with native peoples--

MAROON is a Peter Pan retelling of a young boy who hears his parents talking about what he'll be when he grows up--a slave--and instead runs away after a firefly-fairy into the swamps he calls Nowhere, where he meets indigenous peoples and battles pirates.