The Outer Banks isn’t just a stretch of sand and marshes where the wealthy Kooks flaunt privilege and the Pogues scrape by — it’s a living, breathing crucible of loyalties, rivalries, and secrets. And for seventeen-year-old Elle Rivers, it’s everything she knows, yet nothing she wants to admit she loves. A mechanic’s apprentice, part-time dockhand, and unofficial Pogue-in-training, Elle has lived her life on the edges: edges of the sandbars, edges of friendship, edges of everything that could hurt. And she’s learned, the hard way, that falling can be dangerous.