Written by: Dayna
Name: Alexandra Monroe Age: 26 Romantic Interest: Vin Tanner Background:
Alexandra Monroe was born to a prominent Pennsylvania newspaper family. Gregor Monroe, Alexandra's grandfather, was a pioneer, bringing the first printing press to the small PA town that Alexandra grew up in. William Monroe followed in his father's footsteps and took over the newspaper business when Gregor passed away. Ethel Monroe was a dancer, as graceful as she was beautiful. All of the Monroe girls had been gifted with her style and grace, except for one......Alexandra.
Alex had been her father's daughter, even at the youngest age. While all her sisters were studying ballet with her mother, Alex was at the printing office, ink smudged on her face and hands as she helped her father with the paper. As a teenager, Alex seemed to have a nose for news, often able to dig up information that other writers had been unable to obtain. At age 18, William gave Alex what she wanted more than anything....a tiny column in the Pennsylvania Press.
It was a job that Alexandra took very seriously, despite her mother's protests that it was a man's job to write for a newspaper. She seemed to have a gift for searching out the news which often lead to front page stories.
Late one evening, several weeks after her 24th birthday, Alexandra happened upon her father's dead body in the alley behind the newspaper. While the whole family was devastated by the loss, no one was more destroyed than Alex. In her eyes, her father had been the center of the universe. With him gone, she felt her world had been ripped apart.
Despite her terrible grief, Alexandra went on looking for the fact in the fiction that the local law of the town had fed her. The reports had come back concluding that William had been robbed, the incident purely random. A blow to the head with the butt of a pistol had been the cause of his death. But Alexandra was not convinced. Though William's wallet and wedding band had been removed from his persons, an antique gold pocket watch was left still attached to his vest, leading Alex to believe that foul play was involved.
While her mother and sister's took to wearing black and mourning for William, Alex decided instead to seek out the truth. With her father's pocket watch and a single truck of clothes, she had set out to track down those responsible for her father's murder.
The road to truth led Alexandra on many interesting adventures, but none led her to the truth that she sought. Finally, she decided to let out ghosts lie and to move on. She did this by purchasing a small newspaper in a far off town called Rock Creek, Nebraska.
