"ꜱʜᴇ'ꜱ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ꜱʜᴇ ᴡᴀꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏꜱᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ. ᴀʟʟ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ʜɪᴍ." Anastasia Routledge was never meant to fall for someone like him. A Pogue girl with a fierce heart, a haunted past, and more secrets than she lets on. Rafe Cameron-Kook prince, chaos incarnate, and the one boy she's been warned to stay far, far away from. But fate doesn't care about the lines drawn in the sand. Not when hurricanes hit, not when blood is spilled, and not when hearts begin to fracture. What started as stolen glances turns into something deeper, darker, and dangerously addictive. As Anastasia is pulled into the gravity of Rafe's world-full of broken promises, brutal truths, and the kind of love that threatens to ruin-it's clear there's no going back. In this town, love doesn't save you. It marks you. And in the end, only one can be king. Outer Banks | Rafe Cameron x Original Character | Slow Burn | Angst | Forbidden Romance #1 In Coast #2 In Beachlove #2 In OuterBanks

"𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑆ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠𝑛'𝑡." Iris has always known how to survive. At eighteen, she's everything East Highland thinks she is-reckless, untouchable, the girl with a reputation she doesn't bother correcting. She laughs louder, bites back harder, and never lets anyone get close enough to see what's underneath. By day, she's just another senior counting down the days until graduation. By night, she becomes someone else entirely-someone who dances for money, not attention. Someone who does whatever it takes to keep a roof over her head and her little sister safe. No one knows the truth. Except Maddie. Maddie Perez has always been there-closer than anyone, closer than Iris ever lets herself think about. Their friendship has never had boundaries. It's messy, magnetic, and blurs lines Iris refuses to define. Because defining it would mean risking it. And then there's Nate Jacobs-the one habit Iris never managed to break. Toxic, consuming, and impossible to ignore, he knows exactly how to pull her back in. With him, it's chaos. It's fire. It's everything she's learned to mistake for love. Caught between something real and something familiar, Iris is forced to confront the one thing she's spent years avoiding: Maybe love isn't supposed to hurt. Maybe the hardest thing she'll ever have to do... is choose something soft.