Alexandra York

The Innocent Alexandra York

Publisher Marketing: Feisty singer-songwriter Elena Gadonni's life changes forever on the day she learns that her father Rinaldo is actually "Zio" Gadonni, the Mafia's "Boss of all Bosses." Horrified, Elena repudiates her father and changes her name. But nobody walks out on The Family. Zio schemes secretly to ensnare his daughter into marriage to show-biz agent Lorgan Cantrell. Trapped by his own birth, Lorgan agrees to manage her professionally but privately vows never to romance and certainly never marry this true heroine of the spirit, an act that would betray her independence and force her back into the world of La Cosa Nostra. Elena doesn't know that her sudden career success is being orchestrated by the reluctant heir to the California "Cantrelli" Family. But things take a deadly turn when she decides to testify against her estranged father-and Zio, enraged, puts out a "hit" on his own daughter. Can Elena survive the wrath of her father . . . let alone ever free herself from the iron grip of The Family? THE INNOCENT is a tangled tale of modern-day Mob life-a gripping story of romantic suspense that succeeds without ever romanticizing the brutal underworld of organized crime. "Here is a romantic suspense story with flesh and blood characters who live out the consequences of their values. Love and action are entwined in plot lines that are plausible, engaging, and uplifting." Dr. Pierre Rioux, Psychiatrist and clinical professor of neuroscience Contributor Bio:  York, Alexandra ALEXANDRA YORK Alexandra York presently draws from her multi-faceted background to focus on fiction as well as writing and lecturing on the arts and the culture. In addition to authoring five nonfiction books (one a Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Alexandra has also been published in magazine and newspaper articles, book and movie reviews, and poetry. In other media, she both wrote and performed a bi-weekly feature on WPIX-TV Channel 11 Evening News in New York and wrote and hosted two different Talk Shows that tracked the contemporary performing arts for ABC Radio Network. As an author, she has been a guest on many major Talk Shows, including "The Today Show," "Larry King Live," "To Tell the Truth," "AM New York," "AM Los Angeles," "AM Philadelphia," "Wake-Up Houston," ABC's "Eyewitness News," and hundreds of local and syndicated radio shows. As a performer, she appeared (along with stage and film work) as principal actress in dozens of TV and radio commercials in America and Europe, culminating that aspect of her career in a year-long tour of the U. S. as an exclusive TV spokeswoman for Clairol, Inc. In person, she has lectured extensively at Town Hall Celebrity Series, private organizations, corporations, universities, and exclusive cruise ships. Alexandra is published in England, Australia, Mexico, South America, Russia, and Spain, as well as the United States and Canada. Aside from her nonfiction books (Book-of-the-Month Club, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Van Nostrand, Ballantine and Berkley-Jove), her work has also appeared in publications as varied as Reader's Digest (Domestic and International), Vital Speeches, The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, New Woman, Chronicles, The Humanist, The Intellectual Activist, Reason, American Arts Quarterly, American Artist and Confrontation Literary Journal. She was for six years the Editor for ART Ideas, a quarterly arts and culture magazine published by American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART) a 501(C)(3) New-York-City based nonprofit educational arts foundation of which she is the Founding President: www. ART-21.org Alexandra received the 1997 Whiting Memorial Award for outstanding service to the cultural world from the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in America. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA, and Vermont.