Cousins Beach, is the main location in the book, its where Susannah's summer house resides at and where her best friend Laurel and her children Belly and Steven stay for their summer vacation. Belly the protagonist in the book series treats Cousins Beach and a second home. The House is actually a real home, but the place 'cousins beach' is fictional, this home is located in Wilmington, North Carolina. One of the main events in the Cousins was the 4th of July party, hosting a used to be the two familys, and the dads would come down while the boys went crazy and blew up fireworks, this year in particular Belly has friends and people that she can invite to the home. Belly took this opportunity and invite tons of people and made a fool of herself drinking too much and getting black-out drunk.