Laney Bellows was born a pouge, then turned a kook, but never strayed away from her pouge roots. She became a pouge - kook hybrid and a full time mediator between the two tribes of the outer banks. Her year long relationship with Rafe Cameron kept everyone in line, but what will happen on the island now that their relationship is over? And more importantly, what will happen to Laney, the sunshine girl, as day by day she gets pulled deeper into Rafe's darkness?