Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of
lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger,
the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor,
hopeless, brilliant Fig -- they came together as sorority
sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women
bound by rare, blinding, early friendship -- they spend
two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina,
the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old
weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of a
storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming
back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite
magic of those early years...to experience again the love,
the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that
shaped the four young girls into women and set them all
adrift on the...Outer Banks.