Alexandra Cimarelli
Alexandra
"Alex" Cimarelli is the illegitimate daughter of
Scott Page and
Andrea St. John, born as a result of
their decade-long secret affair. Small of stature, Alex had olive-tinted skin,
green eyes with a mop of black hair. She was slender and quite lovely, and
looked exactly like her father.
Shannon Larkin learns about the affair and the existence of Alex after the death of her husband Scott in 2002, when Alex is seven years old. Shannon tracks down Andrea St. John, who worked the day shift at St. Patrick's Hospital in Larkin City as head pediatric nurse. Shannon surmises Andrea is out to get money from Scott's rather large estate, which she vows to prevent. However, unbeknownst to the Larkin family, their chef Cora Ann Hogan is Andrea's mother. Cora's main goal is to spy on the family, but her inability to control her drinking reveals her unreliability. After Andrea fails to obtain a large sum of money in a legal court, she flees Larkin City, leaving Cora and Alex behind. As Cora wants nothing to do with her own granddaughter, Alex is essentially left orphaned.
Angela Page steps in, her instant affection and compassion for her half-sister Alex overruling all else. She and Tom Cimarelli adopt Alex as their own, much to Shannon's displeasure, taking her back to New York City to be raised.
Later, Alex earns BA in chemical engineering from New York University. A year after graduating, Alex begins working for Suki Sutton SHimada, a fashion designer who also carries exclusive lines of perfume and jewelry. Alex creates several popular scents for Suki, including Calamity Untamed (wildflowers in a black-pink bottle), Calico Breeze (coconut and vanilla in beige packaging), Nocturnal Lunacy (sage and sea salt mixed with patchouli, blue-green packaging with black lettering), Onyx Jade (black violets in a black/emerald bottle with gold lettering), Purrvessence (cream and sugar cookie scent for children, brass/white packaging), and Waterfall Bay (lemon and lime scents mixed with wild cherries and rum, dark red and deep yellow packaging). The body splash line includes Almond Cream, Cherry Dreamscape, Cinnamon Sticks, Earthy Musk, Mint Reflections, Poppy & Pears and Vanilla Pearl.
When the Corona virus pandemic hits the world in 2020, Alex isolates at the Larkin mansion with thAngie, Tom and the rest of the family. The grisly death of a prominent member of the Larkin clan seems to cement the St. John's vow of revenge, which leads the local police chief to investigate Alex's background and the sudden reappearance of her birth mother.
Will Alex be the downfall of the Larkin family, once and for all?
Alexandra Cimarelli appears in The Twilight, Megan's Legacy, and Limb of Iniquity.
Books in the Collective Obsessions Saga by Deidre Dalton may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the author. All eight books in the saga are works of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
*Author's Note: The physical appearance of Alexandra Cimarelli is based on American actress Angie Harmon. The image is not meant to be indicative of true personality traits of a real person, but rather a general idea of what I envisioned as the "outer shell" of a fictional character.
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