Description: Kaleidoscopic and highly exotic, Lands of the Morning series is Michenesque in scope. The pervading theme in the Lands of the Morning series is love, as well as social justice, explored on every level, controversial, all-consuming, and ultimately, redeeming. The trials, tribulations and triumphs of three respective families are traced from their roots in the mists of pre-history. They are the Berks, Trojans, the Alkibiades', Achaeans, and the Kayhans, Turks. Briefly, the general plot of Lands of the Morning is an arabesque fabric of international politics, ambition, triumph and tribulation, set against a tapestry rich in subtle reflections of the author's experiences in the Fourth Estate in Turkey and the USA. Skeins of exotic people, places and customs rooted in Turkey and branching out to Ireland, Israel, United States of America, and in the finale, Azerbaijan and Iraq, keep the subplots interlaced with the fast-growing scheme of events, which climax in an unexpected denouement. The fruit of a lifetime of research and writing, this series is fiction based upon authentic, contemporary as well as historical backgrounds and events. Although the stories are woven upon a timeline, each novel can be read independently.