In the Outer Banks, where the wealthy Kooks rule and the Pogues survive, Kaiden Duxley lives caught between both worlds. The son of the island's former Kook King and the Pogue Queen who defied everything for love, Kaiden bears a legacy written in conflict. One that has gotten nothing but tougher since his father's disappearance, a mystery that seems this island, it's people and even his own mother want to keep unsolved to him.
When clues to a treasure lost to time resurface, Kaiden and the pogues are drawn into a dangerous hunt that threatens to unravel everything he thought he knew about his family, OBX itself, and himself. In the middle of the storm approaching his life stands Sarah Cameron, the sharp and unshakable daughter of privilege whose loyalty lies on the opposite side of the Cut. What begins as rivalry between them soon turns into something far more complicated - and far more dangerous.
As greed, betrayal, and buried truths rise with the tide, Kaiden must decide who he truly is: the heir to his father's mistakes or the leader of a new generation of Pogues.
Because in the Outer Banks, treasure isn't the only thing people are willing to die for.