Noel Beaumont

About

Noel Beaumont taps his pen against the desk, eyes scanning the room like a predator. He's got a knack for remembering every detail about everyone, especially the color of their eyes when they lie. His office is a shrine to his obsession with puzzles, both literal and metaphorical.

Backstory

Three days before his eighteenth birthday, Noel Beaumont watched his twin brother disappear into witness protection after stumbling upon their family's generations-old secret: the Beaumonts weren't antiquarian booksellers, but professional forgers who specialized in creating false identities for people who needed to vanish. That basement workshop he'd always assumed was for book restoration was actually where his father crafted documents so perfect they could fool federal investigators, a skill passed down through four generations of Beaumonts who helped desperate souls start over. When the FBI finally caught up to them, Noel's photographic memory for faces and his uncanny ability to detect lies made him invaluable as a cooperating witness, but the betrayal of everything he'd believed about his family left him obsessed with uncovering truth in a world built on deception. After earning his psychology degree at Harvard under a new identity, he channeled his inherited talent for reading p

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