She's sun-kissed chaos with salt in her veins. He's the hurricane that never learned how to stay. Dove Celest Maren always liked to stay on the sidelines. Working at the cozy gift shop by the beach, journaling in her hammock, swimming with her dog Milo, and minding her own soft-girl business. She's friends with everyone-Pogues, Kooks, and the in-betweens. Especially Sarah Cameron. Even Rafe Cameron... sometimes. But everything shifts the day JJ Maybank walks back into her life like a wildfire. Tan. Reckless. Loud. And looking at her like she hung the damn moon. She's not sure what they are. He's not sure why her being around Rafe drives him insane. And summer? Summer's about to get way too hot to handle. A story of tangled hearts, cold oceans, secret necklaces, stolen nights, jealousy, grief, healing, and finding home in the most unexpected places. This is what happens when sunshine meets storm. A JJ Maybank x OC story written and created by me.

What begins as an escape quickly turns into something she never expected. She came to the Outer Banks looking for her grandparents after quite an adventure back on the mainland. What she found instead was a cornfield, a rusty truck, and a sweaty man with a mustache demanding answers. She didn't have any that she would give out. Not yet... Except for her name. Maeve Calder. But between backwoods secrets and a boy with too-blue eyes, she might just find more than she came for. Family. Freedom. And maybe-finally-a place to stay.

IN WHICH: Katarina Maybanks plan was to stay quiet and keep her head down, battling the trauma and addiction she carried. That plan was shattered not by a wave or a fight, but by the stinging impact of a golf ball-straight to the head. That small, jarring collision throws her directly into the orbit of its owner, Rafe Cameron. He's reckless, destructive, and everything she knows she should avoid. Yet, in their shared brokenness, they recognize something terrifying in

𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒚 𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔' 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔. 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑹𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑲𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔. 𝑹𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚.

in which she told herself she wouldn't fall, but he makes it hard to simply say goodnight and go.

"She is a flawless actress, everyone knows that. But no one knows how true that is, and she fools them all. But for what?" #1 in MAYBANK #3 in STOKES

It's on the title