Leah Mcclellan

Colors - a novel Leah Mcclellan

A heartrending, passionate story about a determined woman's struggle to reclaim her dreams and herself. For Autumn, everything is about color: shades of blue skies, sunsets, clouds, and storms. The flowers she grows and paints. Vegetables in a grocery store. The shimmer of gold in chestnut hair. A button-up shirt, a man's underwear. The colors of love. And her world has unraveled. After losing her parents in a tragic car crash, her husband's emotional abuse becomes unbearable, and her house in the country-the perfect Philadelphia getaway-only isolates her when she's laid off from the job she escaped to. Armed with ambition, she's determined to resurrect her long-buried dream of becoming an artist. But she needs help, and after an electrifying chance meeting with gorgeous grad student Jory, she hires him as her part-time chef. Her talent blossoms, but friends desert her, and her soon-to-be-ex husband is bent on destruction. And as she struggles to find her place in the art world, her long-gone passion burns hot for a man ten years her junior. Her best friend holds her up as her husband tries to break her down, and her chef's ... gorgeous. Will the maelstrom destroy them, or will love grow and passion break down the walls? A heady, contemporary page-turner swirling with suspense, passion, and myriad highs and lows, colors is, above all, a woman's quest for self-identity and freedom on her own terms.