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Description/Synopsis: From The Lands of the Morning (series), reverberates ... The Clarion of Midnight - Megali Idea The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning novel, The Horseman by Kristina O'Donnelly Fast paced, Exciting, Beguiling, Controversial, an international thriller with a tender love story in its core, unraveling in locales which continue to create headlines. The events span exotic Turkey and Israel, and the timing is the eve of a Military coup in Turkey. Anika Alkibiades is the most powerful, brilliant and ruthless woman straddling Europe and Asia. Hers is the Megali Idea of taking over the Government of Turkey, remold it in the glorious spirit of Byzantium, and then reappropriate Byzantium's former territories. Her dark beauty is timeless, exotic, and beguiling, men who are the movers and shakers of the land, are mere dominoes in her hand, and she is close to realizing her golden dream. She is like Catherine the Great of Russia who wanted to conquer Istanbul and replace the crescent atop the Hagia Sophia with a cross. But like all great women, Anika has one weakness: her undying passion for Shaheen, the Turk who had been her first lover.... |
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A Woman's Triumphant Valor. Delicious Language. Award Winning Novel.
