Alessandra Padoan Books

The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. Tana Roberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that will lead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. A thoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing to sacrifice everything to get it. And it's only much later that Tana discovers that she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes of age, at last, and comes full circle.

As a citywide blackout engulfs Manhattan, tension rises for Regan and Jack Reilly. Jack, leading the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigates an art gallery burglary, while Regan aids her friend Kit, who faces danger from a disturbed colleague. Concurrently, actress Lorraine Lily, back from England, is desperate to reclaim items from a safe in the loft sold to the Reillys by her estranged husband, as those items threaten her career. The darkened loft becomes a pivotal setting for these intertwining stories of suspense and ambition.