outer banks

In 1942, thirteen-year-old Taffy, living with her grandfather on Hatteras Island, inadvertently helps capture Nazi spies responsible for passing information to offshore German submarines engaged in torpedoing American ships.

Gina Higgins travels to the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the hopes of escaping a painful secret, but she soon learns that her secrets will remain tied to her all through her life.

Josh Thurlow returns to his Atlantic Ocean island home of Killakeet Island to command a Coast Guard unit and to continue his search for clues to the whereabouts of his brother who has been missing for seventeen years.

In 1941, Coast Guard patrolman Josh Thurlow, still struggling with guilt seventeen years after the disappearance of his younger brother, battles U-boats off the North Carolina coast unaware that one of the German captains may know his brother's whereabouts.