In the Outer Banks, Sarah Cameron is the princess- but Emerson "Emmy" Cameron is the queen. After disappearing to New York for a semester, Emmy returns to the OBX with her crown still intact and her secrets buried deep. Ward Cameron's favorite daughter. Rafe Cameron's ride-or-die sister. A Kook who owns every room she walks into. But before she left, Emmy belonged to someone she was never supposed to love-JJ Maybank. Their relationship was a secret. Their ending was messy. Now JJ hates her for leaving, and Emmy is stuck pretending she doesn't miss the boy who still owns her heart. Old money. Old wounds. Unfinished love. Coming back wasn't part of the plan-but neither was falling for a Pogue who refuses to forgive her.

(BOOK ONE) "...𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰.." "𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥." willow bradshaw was a pogue, born and raised. she was the type of girl to either be high, drunk off her ass, or simply both. she hung around the kooks after she left the pogues behind, being that it was something different. she hated being labeled as a pogue; a nobody. her mother always had something cruel to say to her, which willow grew strong and began to zone it all out. wasn't long before she was taken advantage of by a kook, resulting in her falling back into her ways and coming back to the friends she had amongst her label. they welcomed her with open arms, except for one pogue; jj maybank. he despised her for treating her own kind so foul, but it wasn't long before he found out why.

Some people don't stay dead. Some love stories don't stay buried. And some girls will do anything to bring their boys back. JJ Maybank was everything to Mara-best friend, twin flame, almost lover. And when he died, a piece of her did too. But grief does strange things. It whispers. It twists. And sometimes, it brings the dead home. Now JJ is back. Changed. Crowned. Haunted. And the past he left behind is clawing its way to the surface. This time, Mara won't lose him. Not even if it kills her. ***I can not stress enough that JJ will NOT die in this book, no matter how much it seems like it-HE IS NOT DYING***

☼ 𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍, ➺˚⍣ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝐚 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒖, 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐. ⸻ ❝ you're gonna get me killed one day, maybank. ❞ - lynni keating. Lynnianna Keating. That name to most means royalty. But to her it meant nothing. Lynni hated the way she was. Being a Kook was torture. Fancy parties, big houses. Not her forte. So, how does a Kook change the way her life is? She befriends a pogue..or two and they bring her along for a scavenger hunt; which ultimately leads to bigger, better, and more dangerous things. (rafe cameron x fem oc x jj maybank) OUTER BANKS ! season 1-4 #3 in rudypankow - 2/2/26 cover by the beloved and amazingly talented: @swannluvr @vanitybeaches || 2023 ⓒ All Rights Reserved

Promises? Broken. Laws? Broken. Rules against macking a fellow Pogue? Somehow not broken. The only thing Parker Kate Routledge loves more than pushing boundaries is pushing her twin brother's buttons. And what better way than to flirt with his dangerously sexy and completely off-limits best friend? She's read enough dirty books to know what to say. What she doesn't know is how JJ always has the perfect response capable of toying with her mind. Nine years ago, JJ Maybank promised to stay away from his best friend's twin sister. And for good reason. Parker is more than gorgeous; she is incredibly smart and witty, while JJ is -- not. As much as JJ tells himself to stay away, he cannot help but turn into a shameless flirt whenever she enters a room. Parker might like that it drives John B mad, but JJ likes that it turns her cheeks pink. As the friend group's summer takes a crazy turn, Parker and JJ find themselves doing more than pretending to break the rules. The two are then left wondering what's real, what's fake, and how fast John B would kill them if they ended up together.

Nine years after the Pogues' high school graduation, Charlotte has built the life she always dreamed of - a respected Public Defender in Kildare, just like her father. She has purpose, stability, and a career she's proud of. But when a new case lands on her desk, everything shifts. The defendant is JJ Maybank - the boy who once meant everything to her, and the one she never truly let go. Caught between the professional and the personal, Charlotte is forced to confront the past she thought she'd buried. As she fights to defend JJ in the courtroom, she's also fighting the unresolved feelings between them - and the weight of how things ended years ago. Told across two timelines - the present day and their final year of high school - Back to You is a story of first love, second chances, and the ties that never really break.

❝ I wanna hold the hand inside you I wanna take the breath, that's true I look to you and I see nothing I look to you to see the truth ❞