Summers on the Outer Banks were paradise on Earth. Well, at least they were until Hurricane Agatha came roaring through.

With the early morning shot that nearly took the life of Fred Andrews, Brooke Holliday knew that true evil was beginning to seep into the once safe town that she'd always known. And with the surface of the mysterious and vengeful Black Hood came the final light to the fuse on the Northside's feud with the Southside in a way that threatened to combust the entire town at the seams. So, naturally, because the feud was something she should have stayed out of, Brooke found herself in the thick of it, all because of a Southside Serpent that she most definitely should have avoided.

Becca Forman would rather not end up with one of her friends and risk ruining years worth of friendship, so naturally a strange series of events leads her do the exact opposite of what she wants: falling for Steven Hyde, the sex and rock music obsessed boy with a permanent seat in her basement and, apparently, a rather tight grip on her heart.