❝Oh, Oakley. . . What have you done?❞
Well, they say it's best to start at the beginning, but when the story gets so twisted and out of hand, who really knows where the beginning starts?
The Outer Banks is not the paradise Earth talks about. It's nowhere near the Eden, and it's oceans hide the stories that lie underneath it with such ferocity no one has ever dared defy it to uncover the truth.
No one ever expects a book not to end in a happily ever after. We're never warned about the possible turn in events, so we always expect the sun to shine once more and the dead to rise again.
But like in every other story, nothing can always go well. And this wouldn't be a book if it had always been doomed to have a merry climax and an even merrier ending.
And the island is about to realize that we should never trust anyone. Not even ourselves- Much less ourselves.
That danger hides where you least expect it.
The story of the Pogues is about to become the story of the paradisiacal island of the Outer Banks.
Oakley Clifton is about to realize that love will always overpower every feeling inside her body.
And JJ Maybank is about to find out that he truly, honestly needs nothing more than one soul to swim through the tsunami of the mayhem.
Unconsciously, the Pogues learn that love goes beyond anything they've ever known.
And it becomes all they know.
BOOK 2 OF THE "THE MESS WE'VE MADE" SERIES.
❝ You know, I have the feeling I'm gonna marry you someday, Oak.❞
- What would you do if you found out murder ran through your own blood?
And that, that blood was going to be the reason for the island's biggest case in the history of its existence.
Oakley Clifton didn't have any of this in her plans, nor did she have falling in love in the making.
But the Outer Banks is full of surprises, and when it comes down to it, most of them turn out to be hunting and unfinished- urging that one group of troubled teens to finish what the island never did.
❝This island is just full of surprises. . . ❞
And when they do. . .
Loss and recovery stop sounding so hard to reach.
Love and pain make a home in the children's hearts.
Death becomes one's biggest enemies.
And the story just begins.
BOOK 1 IN THE "THE MESS WE'VE MADE" SERIES!