Stella Vandenburg realizes that loving a criminal makes you just as guilty as they are _lowercase intended in first TWO chapters only. otherwise, proper grammar is intended. _fem!oc x rafe. _enemies to lovers. _a little oc x jj. _season 1-3 complete. _follows the plot of Netflix's Outer Banks (doesn't go off-story). _SLOW BURN. if u want to see kissing five chapters in this is not the right story for you. lots of enemy before the lover.

They had known each other once, in the way kids on a small island inevitably do. Birthday parties. Beach days. Then the world told them. Now, when their paths crossed, it was all snarled words and sideways glances. A war of silence and stolen looks, laced with something neither of them dared name. But even the most dangerous storms start as a ripple. And one summer... something shifted. He looked at her like he saw through the perfect. She looked at him like she wasn't afraid to fall. The island was split. But they were already standing on the fault line. FEM OC x JJ MAYBANK.

❝ You know, I have the feeling I'm gonna marry you someday, Oak.❞ - What would you do if you found out murder ran through your own blood? And that, that blood was going to be the reason for the island's biggest case in the history of its existence. Oakley Clifton didn't have any of this in her plans, nor did she have falling in love in the making. But the Outer Banks is full of surprises, and when it comes down to it, most of them turn out to be hunting and unfinished- urging that one group of troubled teens to finish what the island never did. ❝This island is just full of surprises. . . ❞ And when they do. . . Loss and recovery stop sounding so hard to reach. Love and pain make a home in the children's hearts. Death becomes one's biggest enemies. And the story just begins. BOOK 1 IN THE "THE MESS WE'VE MADE" SERIES!