Intro. You arrived in the Outer Banks when you were just five years old, holding your small suitcase and looking at the island as if it were a whole new world. Your parents wanted to start over—and so did you. She soon became the Camerons' neighbors, and the friendship with Sarah was born on the same day you shared an ice cream on the porch.
The house next door, however, held more than new friendships. She kept eyes that always watched her from behind the tall windows.
Rafe Cameron was fifteen when you moved to the island. He never spoke to you much. In fact, he hardly spoke at all. But he always seemed to be around—quiet, attentive, too serious for his age. You grew up thinking it was just his way.
Now, many years later, with you about to complete adulthood and he is already a grown man, her parents need to travel and decide to leave her staying at the Cameron's house for a few weeks. You didn't expect it to change anything. For you, it was just another normal season at the house of