No safe hearts ㅡ Rafe Cameron

Once, Shellaine Kolin and Rafe Cameron were the Outer Banks' favourite little sweethearts, two rich kids everyone expected to grow up and stay that way.

Then Shell's family lost everything.

Shell became a Pogue. Rafe became rougher than the boy she remembered.

At eighteen, Shell is no longer gentle, no longer easy to hurt.

At nineteen, Rafe is angrier, meaner, and far too much like someone she used to know.

"My dad trusted yours." Shell's voice came out quieter than she meant it to. "That's what I can't forgive."

Rafe's jaw tightened. "You think I can forgive mine if he really did what you're telling me he did?"

Shell looked at him, caramel eyes hard despite the hurt sitting behind them. "The difference is, Rafe, you still got to go home to him."

"And you think that was a fucking privilege?"

But when old secrets begin surfacing around Shell's family, the Pogues, and the people who have spent years protecting the past, they are forced dangerously close again.

They were once called sweethearts.

Now they are two people who grew up wrong and still know exactly where to sink the knife.