Emma Rose Routledge lives for the nights she spends behind her DJ booth - music loud enough to drown the noise in her head, lights bright enough to blur the shadows of her past. But her first big gig on Figure Eight changes everything, the night she meets Rafe Cameron.
Older, untouchable, and wrapped in the kind of trouble you're meant to run from ... yet he feels like someone she's known all her life.
Born in the Outer Banks but taken to Colorado with her mother at the age of three, Emma only returned after her mother's death - drawn back by the brother she barely remembered, John B. But by the time she arrived, their father was already gone, lost at sea.
In that one year since, she's found her place among the Pogues, especially with JJ Maybank. He's been her anchor, her partner in crime - and somewhere along the way, his feelings for her have quietly deepened.
But Rafe sees a part of Emma no one else does. The shadows she hides. The edges she's tried to smooth down. And in him, she sees her own darkness reflected back - the kind of connection that doesn't feel like chance, but fate.
Now Emma's caught between her twin brother's loyalty, searching for their father, discovering some real gold, JJ Maybank's quiet love for her, and the dangerous, soul-deep equality she shares with Rafe Cameron ...
Three lives. Two hearts pulling at hers. And one love that could burn the whole island down.