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Cassandra Blake thought leaving the Outer Banks would make the memories disappear.
After witnessing Rafe Cameron shoot Sheriff Peterkin, Cassie leaves everything behind-the island, her friends, and the boy she once knew-to spend three months trying to put herself back together.
But on her seventeenth birthday, she returns home to find that everything has changed.
John B and Sarah are presumed dead. Ward Cameron has turned the island against them. The Pogues are grieving. And Rafe Cameron is still there-the boy responsible for the memory Cassie can't escape.
She hates him.
Or at least, she tells herself she does.
As the Pogues are thrown back into another dangerous hunt for gold, Cassie finds herself caught between treasure hunts, betrayals, secrets, dangerous enemies, and a Cameron family falling apart from the inside.
And then there's Rafe.
The boy she blames for everything.
The boy she swears she'll never forgive.
The boy she somehow can't stay away from.
Their relationship is anything but easy. There are screaming matches, slammed doors, jealousy, physical fights, bruised knuckles, broken trust, plenty of "I hate you", and more than a few moments where one of them seriously considers walking away for good.
But somewhere between the arguments and the chaos, something changes.
The hatred becomes understanding.
The anger becomes tension.
The tension becomes yearning.
And eventually, neither of them can deny what has been growing between them.
Because sometimes the person you hate the most becomes the person you love the hardest.
But loving Rafe Cameron comes with a price.
And on the Outer Banks, nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Amongst the treasure, danger, fighting, secrets, swearing, heartbreak and chaos, Cassandra and Rafe are about to discover that falling in love with your enemy might be the most dangerous thing of all.