The Girl On The Beach Author:Velda Johnston Kate had left New York City, her advertising job, and her ex-fiance to a small island off the North Carolina coast. She rents an old house. On her first night there, she sees a girl clad in a summery caftan gazing at the house. — The next day a man appears on the beach, he and his wife used to live in the house. The islanders are eager to tell Ka... more »te that he killed his wife. Now he is paroled after serving twelve years of his sentence. He claims he is innocent, but no one will believe him. Falling deeply in love with him, Kate knows their only hope for a future togetheris to find the real killer.« less