Gemma Rae Routledge comes to live with her cousin John B the summer before their senior year. she expected to find John B and his father when she came to them in April. He had been missing for 7 months before that. How her family didn't know made sense to her considering Big John had always been pretty secretive with his family. Now she was living with her cousin on the cut of Outer Banks and gets roped into trouble that her mom sent her away to keep her from in Texas. While working at the island ice cream shop, the chocolate bull, she meets five people that would become a few of her closest friends apart from JJ and the others. She didn't think she would ever care for people that she worked with as much as JJ and John B. She didn't want to put them in danger after she finds herself in the middle of what she can only describe as 'a goonies like goose chase'.