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Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice
“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 beautiful, highly intelligent and highly challenging Greek-American archeologist, his smug and sensational existence is shattered—and conflicts long buried in his soul boil to the surface. Born in New York City of immigrant parents and living in Greece as an adult, 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 independent but feminine 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, glamorous and controversial art world with exotic forays to Greece, Turkey, and Palm Beach, CROSSPOINTS is unlike any other romantic suspense novel. 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, archeology, 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 other conflicts between and within many secondary characters called upon to determine their separate fates at the same time. Choices: the very kind of choices we all face in real life…and their profound consequences for our own personal and professional lives.
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 beautiful, highly intelligent and highly challenging Greek-American archeologist, his smug and sensational existence is shattered—and conflicts long buried in his soul boil to the surface. Born in New York City of immigrant parents and living in Greece as an adult, 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 independent but feminine 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, glamorous and controversial art world with exotic forays to Greece, Turkey, and Palm Beach, CROSSPOINTS is unlike any other romantic suspense novel. 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, archeology, 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 other conflicts between and within many secondary characters called upon to determine their separate fates at the same time. Choices: the very kind of choices we all face in real life…and their profound consequences for our own personal and professional lives.
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492 pages, Paperback
First published September 23, 2003
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Alexandra York
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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 501c3 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. Her latest book (2016) is titled ADAMAS 2016. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA, and Vermont.
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 501c3 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. Her latest book (2016) is titled ADAMAS 2016. With her husband, Barrett Randell, she divides her time between New York City, Bucks County, PA, and Vermont.
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May 2, 2018
I chose to call this literary fiction, although with a small push I might have called it a romance novel, for which I have no category because I never read them! It has lots of flowery language and detailed descriptions of atmospheric settings. Still, it's engaging, and although I almost abandoned it a couple of times, I muddled through and enjoyed the satisfying ending.
For different reasons, a Greek-American woman loves both an American artist and a Greek archaeologist and must choose between the two men, an agonizing choice that takes up a large part of the book. A secondary theme is the glories of traditional art versus the horrors of abstract modern art.
For different reasons, a Greek-American woman loves both an American artist and a Greek archaeologist and must choose between the two men, an agonizing choice that takes up a large part of the book. A secondary theme is the glories of traditional art versus the horrors of abstract modern art.
October 23, 2018
An engaging read with strong characters I cared about -- even most of the villains -- as they face the truth that their choices determine their lives and happiness, and what choices will they make?
Set against a background of the art world and the conflict between modern nihilistic and ancient heroic art, it is a different, philosophical read that I found interesting and refreshing.
Set against a background of the art world and the conflict between modern nihilistic and ancient heroic art, it is a different, philosophical read that I found interesting and refreshing.
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May 4, 2021I absolutely LOVED this book. It kept me drawn in and excited to know what was going to happen next. The author did not hold back and used themes and ideas that may not have been easy to convey, but they were done with grace and I hope to read more from Alexandra York in the future.
February 13, 2017
Crosspoints was the first novel by Alexandra York, previously known for her non-fiction writing. Alexandra is founder and president of American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century and is a prolific writer.
Crosspoints is a romance featuring young and beautiful Tara and her suitors Leon and Dimitrios. The passion is intense as the two obsessive men set Tara as their target and do whatever they can to win her. The romances are beyond what we normally see and experience in life however the writing is brilliant and inspirational for the reader. The psychology of each character becomes more complex and developed as the story moves forward.
The characters travel between Greece, New York City, and Palm Beach as they work within the fields of archaeology, art dealing, classic art, and contemporary art. Descriptions of the sunny seaside in Greece, the cosmopolitan lifestyles of New York, and the corrupt decadence of Palm Beach are excellent, allowing the reader to experience these glamorous settings.
However this isn't just a ordinary love story. The author includes deep themes regarding the free will that drives human motivation. Part of this is about the art. What is art all about? What is the purpose? How has the market for art been corrupted in recent decades?
And the same theme appears in the romances. How are people making decisions? What is driving them? What do they want and what will they do to get it? The characters reach for the best and won't surrender to failure.
I highly recommend this novel to all readers. Everyone will enjoy the author's powerful writing style. And, fans of Ayn Rand in particular will enjoy the underlying themes of rational and independent decision making contrasted with the "herd of sheep" mentality all too prevalent in society today.
John Christmas, author of "Democracy Society"
Crosspoints is a romance featuring young and beautiful Tara and her suitors Leon and Dimitrios. The passion is intense as the two obsessive men set Tara as their target and do whatever they can to win her. The romances are beyond what we normally see and experience in life however the writing is brilliant and inspirational for the reader. The psychology of each character becomes more complex and developed as the story moves forward.
The characters travel between Greece, New York City, and Palm Beach as they work within the fields of archaeology, art dealing, classic art, and contemporary art. Descriptions of the sunny seaside in Greece, the cosmopolitan lifestyles of New York, and the corrupt decadence of Palm Beach are excellent, allowing the reader to experience these glamorous settings.
However this isn't just a ordinary love story. The author includes deep themes regarding the free will that drives human motivation. Part of this is about the art. What is art all about? What is the purpose? How has the market for art been corrupted in recent decades?
And the same theme appears in the romances. How are people making decisions? What is driving them? What do they want and what will they do to get it? The characters reach for the best and won't surrender to failure.
I highly recommend this novel to all readers. Everyone will enjoy the author's powerful writing style. And, fans of Ayn Rand in particular will enjoy the underlying themes of rational and independent decision making contrasted with the "herd of sheep" mentality all too prevalent in society today.
John Christmas, author of "Democracy Society"
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