River isn't the type of girl who goes looking for a boyfriend. But, on the first day of summer back in the Outer Banks since the year before, a boy catches her eye. And she catches his. Rafe didn't drop out of college to come back to OBX for love, but when he sees her in the country club cafe, he can't help but be completely captivated. When a date to the bonfire goes South, their whole world changes. Rafe learns that River isn't much different from him, but she's also not different from a Pogue. Can two worlds collide? The South and the North? The Kooks and the Pogues?