The New York novel of television news, romance and sex, family and secrets, and men and women undone, Alexandra Waring, was originally published under the title West End. As Laura Van Wormer writes in the new author's note, "You may notice a different feel to the ending. That is because I have tried to restore it to something closer to the way I originally intended it, but was pushed to change." The novel is a sequel to Van Wormer's Riverside Drive, and also became a staple of women's fiction best sellers and lesbian fiction . The title character and several others go on to appear in nine more novels. "Alexandra Waring is too good to be true," wrote Harper's Bazaar about the character. "She has the well-bred good looks of Diane Sawyer, the sharp mind of Connie Chung, the cool professionalism of Mary Alice Williams—and the off-screen traumas of the late Jessica Savitch." "A terrific mix of office politics and...

RIVERSIDE DRIVE is about five households in Manhattan who share the same cleaning lady and what takes place after something happens to her and the clients all meet each other for the first time: Beautiful Cassy and her husband, Michael Cochran, are two high-powered TV executives, but he's got a problem and she's got a secret; Howard and Melissa Stewart are the perfect Manhattan couple (so long as no one notices that their marriage is a perfect mess); the wealthy young recluse, Amanda Miller, conducts a social life of weekly tea with an elderly neighbor, chatting with her cleaning lady and having sex with men she does not care to know; the genteel grand dame of Riverside Drive, the widow Mrs. Goldblum, has been fleeced by her son and cheated by her husband's former employer; and Sam and Harriett Wyatt, are rising stars in the upper-class Black community, whose marriage and family life are threatened by Sam's predicament in the corporate suite. And then there is Rosanne, the...

Along the banks of the Hudson River is one of New York's premier enclaves, Riverside Park, where up-and-comers rub shoulders with those who have already made it.Once deliriously happy, Amanda and Howard Stewart now teeter on the brink of infidelity-and financial ruin.Media titan Cassy Cochran's storybook marriage hides the secret at the core of her existence.Beautiful, privileged Celia Cavanaugh's life is spiraling out of control-and she's taking a naive teenage boy down with her.Headstrong single mother Rosanne DiSantos struggled for years to better herself...and now realizes she despises the life she worked so hard to achieve.Proud father Sam Wyatt refuses to see his family destroyed by an act of desperation-and will do anything to preserve their happiness.The widespread branches of this urban family entwine in a stirring, multifaceted story of love denied, love revealed and love remembered.