After losing her mother, stepfather, and little sister in a car accident, eighteen-year-old Eleanor "Nelly" Lakeson is shipped off to Kildare to live with her Kook aunt who believes rules and routine can cure grief. But Nelly carries a darkness no one in Kildare could ever imagine-a past twisted with secrets, fear, and the things she endured throughout her childhood to protect her little sister. No one knew what she survived. No one ever will.. College is a disaster, friendships have withered, and drugs are the only thing keeping the memories quiet. Nelly has always been drawn to boys with cracks, boys who are as haunted as she is. Which is why Rafe Cameron terrifies her. He's everything she should avoid: arrogant, privileged, infuriating. But behind his perfect façade is something fractured, something bruised, something she recognizes in herself. And he sees her darkness too-like he's been waiting for someone just as wrecked. What starts as tension turns into a connection too intense to deny. Late-night whispers turn into shared demons, shared addictions, shared hunger for something that feels almost like love... or the closest thing two broken souls can manage. And as Nelly slips deeper, she drags Rafe with her-into her addictions, her trauma, her storm. Together they spiral into something raw, toxic, consuming... a love that feels like both a fatal mistake and the only thing keeping them alive. This wasn't healing... This was falling... Beautiful, deadly, and completely unstoppable... #1 RafeCameronobx 12/3/26 #1 Druguse 13/3/26 #1 p4l 8/4/26 ---- This story is based off Characters from Outerbanks. I do not own the rights to characters from the show. This does not follow Obx plot This story contains themes such as Drugs/alcohol addiction Sexual Assualt and Violence Depression Sex This will be quite a dark, toxic and heavy story so please bare this in mind if you decide to read, I will put Trigger Warnings throughout. Thank you

//Rafe Cameron\\ "You don't make deals with the devil, not unless you want to dance with him and maybe I did" Lily Grant has spent her whole life slumming it with the pogues, being that she is one. They're her day ones, her best friends. Life couldn't seem worse yet better while spending the summer partying and treasure hunting. Until the pogues find themselves in some trouble with little to no way out. Lily will go out of her way to save her friends, finding herself in a pit of her own trouble. Bringing her into the path of the devil himself, Rafe Cameron to whom she is in debt with. Something he'll never stop chasing her for..that is until one night when she has no choice but to go along with his so called 'deal' to pay her debt and if she's lucky..help her friends. This is enemies to lovers and gets quite dark at times. Some characters do quite a few things some readers may not find redeemable. I would say it could fall under the Dark Romance category. It's not for everyone. But! If you choose to read, you won't be disappointed! Trigger warning: This book contains dark themes, rape, assault, violence, drug and alcohol use. Sex between enemies, and detailed descriptions of main characters depressed mental health state. All Obx characters and storyline of the show belong to the writers. I only own my own parts of the storyline created in this story and characters.