She hasn't been gone that long! She re-released Overcome last year, toured at the beggining of this year and now she's taking probably the same amount of time (if not a bit longer) to work on her second album as she did on her first.
I'm interested to see where the label take Alexandra. She's got a good fanbase in the UK and should do well, so I wonder if they'll try and make her more of an international star with this album.