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Alexandra Marshall
Alexandra Marshall is an American novelist who was born in Western Pennsylvania, and raised in the suburbs close to New York City. In 1965, she graduated with a BA in French while also studying Modern Dance at the New England Conservatory. She worked in the Japanese consulate after studying Japanese Classical Dance in Kyoto, and then moved to Sanford University after marrying her first husband. In 1970, she and her husband lead a group of college students for Operation Crossroads Africa, where her husband passed away at the age of 28. After her husband's passing, Marshall moved back to the U.S. and started a doctoral program in American Studies. She wrote two practice novels which eventually became two of her published works. She met with a literary agent in Boston who introduced her to her current husband. On top of being a novelist, Marshall has been a film critic for The American Prospect, and has supervised the Courage In My Life essays of sixth graders in Boston Public Schools, which are published in an annual collection titled The Courage of Boston's Children.
THE SKY BRIGHTENED into shades of gray and, from Overlook Road in Cleveland Heights, silver-plated Lake Erie.
— from The court of common pleas, 2001
Most acclaimed
Still Waters
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP... When Elizabeth Stuart searched for a quiet, peaceful home for herself and her son, Still Creek seemed perfect. Nestled in the heart of lush Amish farmlands, this small, idyllic Minnesota town would allow her to put a shattering divorce behind her. But the locals were noticeably cool to the newcomer-who was rumored to be a gold digger-especially when she started stirring up controversy with her newspaper. And now when a murdered body literally falls at her feet, she has a slight credibility problem ...particularly with the arrogant sheriff whose blue eves seem to know her darkest secrets. INTO A RISING TIDE OF DESIRE-- An ex-pro athlete who had returned to Still Creek a hero Sheriff Dane Jantzen doesn't have much use for the media-- especially not in the form of this glamorous, gutsy outsider who spells trouble with every word she prints. So when she becomes his suspect in a vicious crime, the last thing Dane expects is the jolt of attraction at their every encounter. AND DANGER Elizabeth would soon challenge Dane's every assumption, including the one that he's better off without love. But as they risk everything to uncover the truth, the current of evil that contaminates Still Creek threatens to pull them both under...
Tender Offer
TO MEND A MARRIAGE... Casey O'Neill never would have gone looking for her ex-husband, Alex Torres, if she'd seen any other way out of her dilemma. Alex had turned his back on the corporate life--and on her--but now she had to convince him to come back. People's lives depended on it. From the moment Casey reentered his life, Alex was torn. He wanted to help her, but there was something she didn't know, something he couldn't let her know. He was hiding a secret that filled him with shame, a secret that would destroy him in her eyes-a secret she would be bound to discover if he followed his heart and asked her back into his bed.