Riley Thornton knows the rules. Don't cross the line. Don't let things spiral out of control. Do not get close to him. JJ Maybank is the line she always wanted to keep away from. She knows the rules. He breaks them. She comes from order. He - from chaos. Their worlds were never meant to collide. But the more words, the sharper they cut. The longer they look, the more dangerous they become. After all, the Kook and the Pogue aren't supposed to get close, right? There are rules that should never be broken.

Her mind had become a Maze, a vibrant puzzle only he had the key to understand the keening of it. She could hide in the corners of rooms and be avoidant. But he'd follow her, foolishly because he was in love. And she'd always pretend she is not. She's hurting and drowning in a labyrinth of waves, a pinching bruise over a bandaid. She could hide in the corners of rooms but she'd still be scared. When he'd opened his mouth, she thought it was the end. The ending was wrong because she was in love too... ~ JJ Maybank x OC ~ ~ Slow burn ~ This book contains strong language, violence, abuse, drugs, mental health descriptions, self harm, suicide and other themes that may be triggering. There will be a !TW! at the start of every corresponding chapter.

𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲 𝓒𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓪𝓱𝓪𝓷 had always been connected to the Outer Banks. This cursed town was the only one she knew, and its inhabitants were the family that had surrounded her for as long as she could remember. Along with her twin brother, Brooklyn, she had only ever moved among high-society acquaintances, never venturing outside the territory of Figure Eight, where her house was located. But that hadn't always been the case, and now, after several long years, things were about to get complicated again. And no one in all of North Carolina was a greater master of complicating things than JJ Maybank and his gang of oddball buddies, whom Lora hated so much. A story full of risky adventures, a dangerous lifestyle and an unexplained attraction to difficult feelings and a crazy search for lost treasures. [!] for polish version, check the profile.

𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬, the new heartless kook in the outerbanks, gets her drugs from 𝐣𝐣 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤, a dirty blonde pogue who hates nothing more than kooks ___________________ [jj x female oc] [read at the bottom of the prologue for tw!]