"A psychological thriller. . . richly drawn characters. . . an innovative, powerfully motivational novel." -Dr. Michael J. Hurd, psychologist and nationally syndicated talk show host What happens when your work and your love clash with your deepest values? Leon Skillman is a rich and renowned American sculptor. Cynical, smart, handsome, and glib, he's the darling of socialites, the press, art critics, and gossip columnists. But when he meets Tara Niforous, a highly challenging Greek-American archaeologist, his smug existence is shattered-and conflicts long buried in his soul boil to the surface. Tara is an idealist who lives for her ancient bronze and marble "gods." But she falls irresistibly in love with Leon, who looks and acts like one in the flesh. Meanwhile, Dimitrios Kokonas-Tara's older employer at the Athens museum where she works-has for years been secretly in love with his protégé. Intensely romantic yet painfully shy, Dimitrios vows at last to reveal his passion to Tara. . . but now he must challenge a young god for the woman he adores. Set in Manhattan's fast-paced, controversial art world with exotic forays to Greece, Turkey, and Palm Beach, CROSSPOINTS is unlike any other romantic suspense novel because of its thought-provoking ideas and perceptive insights. It explores not only the tangled conflicts of the human heart but also the clashing values that lie at their core. It's an unforgettable love story that simultaneously unveils the hidden worlds of art, archaeology, family, religion, and high society-worlds where the rare quest for noble ideals must overcome the raw pull of sex, drugs, money, fame...and sometimes, of love itself. CROSSPOINTS is a story about Choice-not only the choices faced by three strong-willed people ensnared in a mind-and-heart-gripping romantic triangle but also conflicts between and within secondary characters as well. Choices: the very kind of choices we all face in real life...and their profound consequences for our own personal and professional lives.
About the Author: 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.