The Saltwaters Secrets

Blossom-Sage Claire arrives in the Outer Banks at the start of summer, stepping off her family's yacht like she belongs there, expensive linen dresses, gold jewelry, perfectly composed. To the Kooks, she's instantly intriguing: rich, beautiful, and impossible to read. Rumours spread fast that her family owns hotels from Monaco to Miami, but nobody knows why they suddenly moved to the OBX.

What they don't know is that Blossom-Sage didn't come to escape the city, she came to escape her life.

A year earlier, her older brother disappeared after a boating accident during a storm off the Amalfi Coast. His body was never found. After that, her once-perfect family fell apart quietly behind magazine covers and charity galas. Her mother buried herself in work, her father became colder, and Blossom-Sage stopped speaking the way she used to. She hides everything behind sharp wit, late-night drives, and a detached kind of confidence that makes people want her attention even when she pushes them away. She tells everyone she hates the ocean now.

But every night, she still walks to the beach alone.