(STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT) While helping her brother, John B Routledge, search for the missing gold from The Royal Merchant ship, Alana Routledge finds herself on the side of the road, face down with her friends while a masked man points the barrel of a gun down her face. Fear should strike her but instead... This mysterious masked man piques her interest. Every dark romance novel she has ever read has led her right to this moment with Kildare's biggest drug dealer. How will she balance the good girl image she's maintained, finding the gold with her brother, and sneaking around with Barry? Especially after she agrees to be his fake girlfriend to attend his mother's gala in New York City. (ALL CHARACTERS ARE AGED UP DUE TO CONTENT PURSPOSES AND SOME STORYLINES HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO FIT THE STORYLINE)

(STORY IS 18+ AND CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT!) High school sweethearts, Barry Alvarez and Alana Routledge had always imagined they'd have the perfect life together. She was going to finally make it out of Pogue life and get away from her treasure obsessed father while Barry was going to make his family proud by joining the army and making something for himself as well as Alana. Although they decide to take a break while he's on his deployment due to personal reasons, after the nightmares he faces overseas, he comes home a different person than he'd ever been before. Alana is told constantly to give up on him, that he isn't worth fixing. But she'll be damned if she doesn't at least try. (follows seasons 1-4 as well as flashbacks to the start of their relationship.)

ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏᴜᴛᴇʀ ʙᴀɴᴋꜱ ᴊᴊ ᴍᴀʏʙᴀɴᴋ ⤷ ꜰᴇᴍᴀʟᴇ ᴏᴄ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴏɴᴇ

ꜱᴇᴀꜱᴏɴ ᴛᴡᴏ ᴏᴜᴛᴇʀ ʙᴀɴᴋꜱ ᴊᴊ ᴍᴀʏʙᴀɴᴋ ⤷ ꜰᴇᴍᴀʟᴇ ᴏᴄ ʙᴏᴏᴋ ᴛᴡᴏ

Josephine Brooke Routledge, or Josie, is everything the Outer Banks isn't: quiet, kind, and far too gentle for the life the Pogues live. While her brother, John Booker Routledge dives headfirst into danger, treasure hunts, and trouble, Josie stays in the background with a book in her hand and a heart too big for the Cut. Everyone thinks she's innocent. Fragile, even. But being the quiet Routledge doesn't mean she doesn't see everything. She sees the cracks in the people around her, the grief John B hides, the pain JJ laughs off, the pressure Pope carries...and the darkness behind Rafe Cameron's eyes. And somehow, Rafe keeps finding his way to her. John B would do anything to protect his little sister, especially from someone like Rafe. But in the island, nothing stays simple for long. Secrets unravel, loyalties are tested, and Josie finds herself caught between the family who would die for her..and the boy everyone warns her to stay away from. What happens when the sweetest girl on the island becomes part of the darkest storm? Because in the Outer Banks, even the quiet ones have a story.

Before the treasure hunts and blood in the water, there was Sloane Carrington and Rafe Cameron. The golden couple of Figure Eight. She saw the boy beneath his volatility long before the island saw the danger. When the summer that changes everything begins, Sloane becomes Rafe's anchor as he spirals, until loving him starts to cost her pieces of herself. By the time the island fractures, the fault lines between them are already there. © kooksandpearls | Feb, 2026

ALGEDONIC (al-juh-don-ik) (adj.) relating to the coexistence or mixture of pleasure and pain IN WHICH a Routledge and a Cameron fall in love... Juliet Routledge was the Pogue Princess; the girl who loved everyone loudly, fiercely... and was never loved enough in return. Except for one person. The one who looked at her like she was something sacred, the one who saw every crack she tried to hide, the one she should have stayed far away from. And that one was none other than the Kook King, Rafe Cameron. They were wrong for each other in every possible way, which was exactly why they fit. ranks: #14 cleo ~ 19/08/26 #1 camilamorrone ~ 19/08/26 #5 topperthorthon ~ 19/08/26 #6 jonathandavis ~ 19/08/26 #6 austinnorth ~ 19/08/26 #7 carlaciagrant ~ 19/08/26 #17 obxfanfic ~ 19/08/26

Kook turned pogue turned kook again... When 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐛𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐭'𝐬 parents force her to stop seeing her friends after her dad becomes mayor, tensions rise, backs are stabbed and secrets are kept...Will this summer change all of that? [kiara Carrera x fem oc] [semi slowburn] Most impressive rankings 🏅 #1 kiaracarrera #1 royalmerchant #1 p4l #3 poguelandia

DISCONTINUED it's the way i'm feeling, i just can't deny but i've gotta let it go ➵ ┆outer banks seasons 1 - 4 ! ✩ jj maybank x fem!oc

𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡...... eden bexley and her group of sun kissed friends discover a mystery of a lifetime, filled with gold, thriller and even life threatening adventures. what could you expect? with a bunch of pogues, life is bound to be a little crazy. (book one of one) (started: 1.3.23) (finished: tbd) (outer banks s1-s3) RANKED #1 IN OUTERBANKS3 (as of 6/1/23).