Under My Skin Book I
A son's quest for truth through neglect, the Gulf War, and a Sinatra legacy
- Biography
Was he the son of a legend, or the victim of a grand delusion? Victor Randolph Edmonston spent his childhood as a nomad, dragged across America by his mercurial mother, Yvonne. From the neon shadows of Las Vegas to the shifting sands of foster care, Victor’s life was defined by chaos, neglect, and a singular, shocking claim: that he was the biological son of Frank Sinatra Jr. Trapped in his mother's web of manipulation and emotional abuse, Victor survived a gauntlet of trauma before finding an unlikely refuge in the 82nd Airborne Division. As a combat medic during the Gulf War, he traded his mother's erratic whims for the structured brutality of the battlefield. But the ghosts of his past followed him home. After his mother’s tragic death, Victor lands in Hollywood at the historic Villa Carlotta, surrounded by a cast of dreamers and eccentrics. There, he embarks on a high-stakes, hair-brained mission to secure a DNA sample from the Sinatra family and finally separate fact from his mother’s fiction. Under My Skin: Book I is a raw, heart-wrenching, and ultimately triumphant memoir about the scars we carry and the courage it takes to write a new legacy when the old one is built on lies.