Shelley Noble Books in Order

In 1915 New York, the three Applebaum sisters run Arcadia Rare Bookshop on bustling Book Row just as Comstock era censors target so called obscene materials. While Olivia and Daphne keep the shop afloat, youngest sister Celia secretly smuggles banned women's health information, risking prison to protect readers and their livelihood.

When society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at a grand hotel because she is unaccompanied, she vows to open Manhattan's first social club for women. Architect Stanford White, actress decorator Elsie de Wolfe and drafter Nora Bromley join her, but scandal and murder nearly sink the dream.

In 1899 Manhattan, three very different women work in the little known women's division of Tiffany Glass, designing pieces for the Paris World's Fair. As Emilie, Grace and Clara chase artistic dreams, they confront stolen credit, rigid gender rules and the cost of choosing independence.

Ambitious New York photographer Dani Campbell tracks a packet of haunting vintage photos to a crumbling Rhode Island beach house and their reclusive creator, Lawrence Sinclair. As he reluctantly mentors her and his grandson returns, all three must decide what success, forgiveness and home look like.

When Phoebe Adams loses her job, fiancé and sense of direction in one day, she retreats with her newly divorced mother to her grandmother's house on Summer Island. A meddling great aunt, a prickly neighbor and buried hurts push them toward fresh starts.

Skye Mackenzie runs a whimsical toy and book shop in a Rhode Island beach town and is planning a family retreat for visitors. Her estranged half sister arrives with Skye's first love in tow, forcing old betrayals, new lies and the town's future into collision.

In 1908 New York, Lady Philomena Dunbridge agrees to host a seaside dinner for a controversial Austrian psychologist whose work attracts spies as well as scholars. When a guest is shot, she must untangle clashing egos, secret agendas and a very personal suspect.

Schoolteacher Julie Barlow heads for a carefree beach trip with friends, only to be pushed into searching for her wayward Uncle Lucky at his shabby Delaware bar. In the quirky town that adores him, she uncovers family secrets, unexpected allies and her own appetite for risk.

On a glittering Christmas in Gilded Age Manhattan, Lady Dunbridge looks forward to the first Times Square ball drop. When a crusading newsman is murdered and a young woman reporter is attacked, Phil pursues a conspiracy that threads through newspapers, charities and high society parlors.

Newly arrived in Manhattan, Lady Philomena Dunbridge is summoned to discreetly look into the death of a charming young tycoon found in a Long Island mansion after a lavish ball. To stop scandal and financial panic, she must untangle Wall Street schemes, family grudges and dangerous loyalties.

Obedient daughter Zoe Bascombe finally rebels when her late mother's will sends her alone to scatter ashes at Wind Chime Beach. There she discovers a hidden branch of her family and, caught between feuding relatives, must decide what loyalty and home really mean.

After a runaway bride catches her groom in a compromising scene, she and three friends flee in a battered van to remote Lighthouse Island. There, four very different women confront old wounds, tentative romances and the healing pull of a close knit coastal community.

As a newly widowed countess in 1907, Philomena Amesbury sails to New York eager for freedom and fun, only to watch her friend's husband collapse, shot, on the pier. Determined to clear her friend, she plunges into Manhattan's glittering, corrupt high society to hunt a killer.

Curator Issy Whitaker returns to Muses by the Sea, her eccentric family's crumbling Connecticut mansion, to find her grandmother ill, cousins abandoned and the house near foreclosure. A summer of repairs forces four generations of women to confront old resentments, lost art and unexpected possibilities.

Back in Whisper Beach, professional organizer Van Moran juggles a new office and a fragile relationship with vineyard owner Joe Enthorpe. When Joe shelters three local siblings for the holidays, family chaos and fear of loss test Van's hopes for a lasting home.

Former foster child Sarah Hargreave is close to adopting spirited little Leila when the girl's drug addicted birth mother reappears. Teaming up with Nonie, the childhood best friend who once left her behind, Sarah must face past betrayals to protect the child they both love.

Vanessa Moran swore she would never return to Whisper Beach after the humiliating summer that drove her away pregnant and alone. Fifteen years later, a funeral, a failing seaside restaurant and the man she left behind force her to face small town gossip, secrets and old friends.

Restless world traveler Geordie Holt takes a photography job on a Newport mansion renovation only to be dismissed as a frivolous hire. As she fights to prove herself to exacting architect Bruce Stafford, the decaying Gilbert House and its history give her a reason to finally put down roots.

Newport preservationist Meri Hollis thinks she knows her story until a long hidden secret reveals she was the baby rescued from a stormy bay decades earlier. As scandal ripples through town, Meri and childhood friend Alden Corrigan must decide what family, love and home really mean.

Set a year after Breakwater Bay, Meri Calder Hollis is preparing to marry Alden Corrigan and become stepmother to his teenagers. Holiday festivities, a sullen daughter and lingering grief threaten the celebration until an unexpected Christmas surprise draws the new family together.

Shattered by tragedy, documentary filmmaker Abbie Sinclair escapes to Stargazey Point, a faded South Carolina resort where three elderly siblings offer her shelter. Working alongside brooding carousel restorer Cabot Reynolds, she slowly rediscovers hope, purpose and the courage to love again.

When burned out architect Cabot Reynolds inherits a tumbledown property in Stargazey Point, he heads to the South Carolina coast intending a quick sale. Instead, eccentric locals, a weathered carousel and a sense of unfinished business tempt him into reimagining his carefully ordered life.

Two linked holiday novellas return to Crescent Cove. At Thanksgiving, quiet Grace's carefully planned dinner is upended by an estranged father and a friend's long hidden feelings. At Christmas, single mom Bri shelters a stranger whose presence reshapes what family means for her daughters.

Fashion designer Margaux Sullivan loses her label, loft and marriage in one brutal week and retreats to Crescent Cove, the Connecticut beach town she left behind. There, a widowed police chief and his wary young nephew help her rebuild both her art and her heart.