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Beach Colors

A Novel

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New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

While renowned designer Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised collection during New York City's Fashion Week, her husband was cleaning out their bank account. A week after he disappeared, the bank foreclosed on Margaux's apartment and business.

Suddenly broke, betrayed, and humiliated, Margaux has nowhere else to turn to but home: the small coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut, where she once knew love, joy, and family before she put them behind her on the climb to fame. When she's stopped for speeding by local interim police chief Nick Prescott, Margaux barely remembers the ""townie"" boy who worshipped her from afar every summer. But Nick is all grown up now, a college professor who gave up his career to care for his orphaned nephew, Connor. Though still vulnerable, Margaux is soon rediscovering the beauty of the shore through young Connor's eyes . . . and, thanks to Nick, finding a forgotten place in her heart that wants to love again.

But as she continues to work on a bold new line that will get her back into the game, Margaux realizes that soon she will have to make the most important, most difficult decision of her life. . . .

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 10, 2012
      Margaux Sullivan, the protagonist of the pseudonymous Noble's women's fiction debut (after a long line of romance and mystery novels, including, most recently, Foul Play at the Fair, as Shelley Freydont), is a fashion designer taking New York City by stormâthat is, until her husband steals all of their money and abandons her. Confused and distraught, she returns home to Crescent Cove, Conn., and reconnects with family, friends, and a former flame: Nick Prescott, the town's police chief. As Margaux rebuilds her life, she slowly falls once again for the honorable, if initially intractable, Nick, who abandoned his career as a professor in order to return to Crescent Cove and care for his young "traumatized" nephew, Connor. But opportunities await in New York, and Margaux must decide which is more importantâthe runways of Manhattan, or a quiet life with Nick and Connor. Noble draws readers effortlessly into the tender drama of Nick and Margaux's romance, and the multiple stories of loss and rediscovered trust will delight readers looking for a beach read with substance. Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

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      June 1, 2012
      It's Fashion Week in New York City, and designer Margaux Sullivan discovers her husband has cleaned out their bank account and disappeared. With nothing left except her car and a muddied reputation, she returns to the safety of the family beach house in Crescent Cove, Connecticut. There she finds comfort in the tight-knit oceanside community. She also discovers Nick Prescott, a vague acquaintance in childhood, who is now acting chief of police. Nick has sacrificed a promising teaching career in Denver to return home to care for his nephew Connor, who has been abandoned by his mother and become uncommunicative. When Margaux begins to design a new clothing line, her plans for a triumphant return to the industry conflict with the lure of the handsome, kindhearted policeman and his wide-eyed charge, leaving her to make the decision of a lifetime. Readers will easily fall into the rhythms of Crescent Cove, populated by an entertaining, endearing cast of characters. Readers will also be rooting for a young, ambitious woman caught between competing life choices, who discovers the healing power of family, friends, and home.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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