I love you as a fist loves the broken rib /
As the lungs love the chase / As the finger
and nail love the gouge and tear.

DEUS EX MACHINA (2021)

Dedicated to the girls with war in
their hearts and ichor in their veins;
in memory of the boys they are
yet to ruin.

⠀⠀BRIAR AMADOR HAS SHARPENED HER CLAWS AND PRIED THE PIECES OF GOD FROM HER BONES.

⠀⠀Nineteen years of girlhood rage stuffed into a bruising case. Violence practised and perfected at the ashen tips of fingers once kissed to sleep. Make no mistake about it: this girl is a killer.

⠀⠀She wants that fact painted in the ichor of her victims across the front door of each and every obnoxiously grandiose home on Figure Eight. She'd do it herself if she could - the thought has certainly crossed her mind on multiple occasions - but she'd rather swallow her pride before letting Kildare County's shitty excuse for a sheriff's department take her alive. (Again).

⠀⠀A sordid game of cat-and-mouse, rodents in blue with nothing to lose and a girl of feline instinct with everything to gain; they've been players since her exile to the mainland. Though, really, it'd be misleading to refer to it as a game. That would imply the two started on an equal footing, with equal resources and an equal regard for the rules.

⠀⠀No, a better word for it would be a gamble.

⠀⠀The odds are stacked against Briar Amador, yet she wonders whether they exist at all upon watching her opponents turn to slack jaw and weary eye, time and time again. Her stakes are piling higher by the minute and it is only a matter of time before the bloodied chips come tumbling down and take her with them. Cards on the table; the cursed child of the Outer Banks is on a fucking winning streak! Let a young psychopath bask in all her falsified glory!

⠀⠀And she's almost certain she'd hit the jackpot after striking a deal with Ward Cameron: Rid him of the likes of John B Routledge and, in return, a generous share of the Royal Merchant gold. 'S a walk in the goddamn park.

⠀⠀...Enter Rafe Cameron.

⠀⠀Kook prince, budding felon; Grade-A asshole run rampant through the halls of Tanneyhill upon hearing word of the newfound stray clasping his father's trust in her calloused palm.

⠀⠀Rafe has had it with living in the shadows. First, his sister's and now, some psychopathic runt from the Cut's? No, no. This is his chance to prove, once and for all, his claim to the patriarchal Cameron name. His chance to fucking shine.

⠀⠀And he'll be damned to let Briar Amador stand in the way of it.

Ana De Armas, Briar Amador
BLOODY VALENTINE VIRGO

Drew Starkey, Rafael 'Rafe' Cameron

Skeet Ulrich, Enzo Marchetti

Charles Esten...         Ward Cameron
Chase Stokes...     John B Routledge
Madelyn Cline...        Sarah Cameron
Rudy Pankow...               JJ Maybank
Jonathan Daviss...     Pope Heyward
Madison Bailey...         Kiara Carrera

And all other Outer Banks cast members
as their respective characters.

i. DISCLAIMER

All rights for Outer Banks and its original characters belong to Netflix and its creators. I only claim ownership of Briar Amador, Enzo Marchetti and their respective backstories.

There will be changes made and dialogue added to the original telling of Outer Banks. I do not mean to take away from nor add to the storytelling of its creators. Each work is to be taken and appreciated in its own respect.

ii. WARNINGS

This book will contain swearing, violence, death, the use of guns and illicit substances, as well as sexually suggestive content. If you are uncomfortable with any of the aforementioned subjects, I recommend you refrain from reading this work.

iii. NOTES

Started, 14/10/2021
Published, 31/10/2021
Edited, 27/10/2022
Completed, N/A

⠀⠀⚖️ It's been a year since I first published this book and, at last, I've mustered the motivation to bring it back to life!

⠀⠀⚖️ God how I've missed my beloveds Briar and Rafe 😭🥹 Can I get a fuck yeah for my favourite psychopaths finally making their comeback?!

⠀⠀⚖️ If you couldn't already tell from the new aesthetics, I'm totally flipping the script and making this book ten times darker than I'd originally written it (if that's even possible).

⠀⠀⚖️ OBX3 giving us Buzzcut!Rafe and a love interest is quite literally the best thing that could've ever happened to this godforsaken book. Thank you Josh and Jonas Pate for your services.

⠀⠀⚖️ Welcome back if you've been keeping up with this book from the start! I love and appreciate you all so much 🫶🏽 And for the newcomers... buckle up, you're in for a hell of a ride.

DEUS EX MACHINA (2021)
Outer Banks Season 2