Alexandra Marshall
Description
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.
Books
The court of common pleas
At sixty-three, Judge Gregory Brennan is on the brink of retirement. With his youngest daughter headed for college, he envisions traveling abroad, basking in a repose that his demanding career has not allowed, with his wife, Audrey, at his side. But Audrey has other ambitions. At forty-nine, she sees the mythic empty nest as an opportunity to explore her own potential — as a medical student. When Audrey reveals her plans, Gregory is overwhelmed, and he emotionally retreats, causing a rift that neither one of them ever anticipated.
The brass bed
"Funny, frisky, and far out! Jennifer Stevenson's writing is naughty and irresistible."--Julie Kistler, author of ScandalTHE CURSE: Satisfy one hundred women or be trapped in a brass bed foreverLord Randall was a lousy lover in 1811, so his magician-mistress turned him into a sex demon. Lucky for him, his bed fell into Clay's hands. THE CON: Sex therapy for women on an antique brass "treatment bed"Clay has the perfect scam going, until that pesky, foxy fraud investigator Jewel comes sniffing around. Lucky for him, she has a soft spot for hunky con men.THE CHOICE: Sex demon or sex fraudster? Jewel is Randy's hundredth woman. Now he says he's her personal sex slave, and her case against the con artist is dissolving in a hail of hormones. Lucky for her, she's a tough cop with a lusty libido.From the Paperback edition.
Still Waters
A Town in Jeopardy.A window smashed. A local teenager assaulted. The community of Lakeview is panicked when a gang of teens wreaks havoc in this sleepy Virginia hamlet. But Sheriff Jake Reed seems just the man to stop the vandalism.A Woman in Danger.Tiffany Anderson thought the "crime wave" was nothing but a bunch of summer boys with too much money and time on their hands. But when she becomes the gang's target, Tiffany must cling to her faith that God will send her a protector....A Man of Secrets.Keeping an eye on Tiffany, Jake finds himself drawn to the feisty redhead who reaches out to the needy. But haunted by his troubled past, he's leery of spending time with a woman who evokes feelings he'd thought long buried. Then Tiffany vanishes, and Jake can only pray he'll find her in time. Because suddenly he understands that God didn't mean for him to be alone, but to share his life with the woman who shares his faith.