Kristina O'Donnelly
Bio: Author of six exotic novels, Kristina O'Donnelly was born in Rome, Italy, and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. Her diversified rucksack of professional experiences span 25 + years and include acting, writing (journalist, columnist, editor, and publisher), as well as advertising (12 years with the New York Daily News), union activism (The Newspaper Guild of America) and real estate sales. Married to her soulmate, Michael, of County Armagh, Kristina feels at home in Turkey, Ireland, as well as U.S.A. Kristina's latest novel, Trojan Enchantment [Lands of the Morning Series #5] has a dedicated website:
Next in the series: Daughters of Fire, due December 2005.
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Andromakhe--Volume I: Mysteries, Blessings, and Tragedy [MultiFormat]
by Kristina O'Donnelly
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In a fascinating re-imagination of the Trojan War, the end of ancient Goddess worship, and the battles between Olympian gods, author Kristina O'Donnelly tells the story of Andromakhe, wife of Hector, hero of Troy, and a woman blessed or cursed with the ability to sense the gods. From her youth, when she accepts a gift from the ancient mother Goddess, to the fall and rape of Troy, Andromakhe stands firm in an attempt to confound the fates and save her loved ones as well as her adopted city. O'Don... more info>> (Published: 2006) POW! Award First Place Winner
Words: 114235 - Reading Time: 326-456 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Andromakhe--Volume II: Diaspora, Sons and the Pillar [MultiFormat]
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Completing the Andromakhe Cycle, Volume II tells of Andromakhe in captivity, held as concubine by the son of Achilles, hated by Hermione, daughter of Hellen, and constantly in danger of being murdered. Still, Andromakhe fights not only for her own survival, but to find her lost son, Skamandrios, and in hopes of creating a new home for the Trojans dispersed and enslaved by the conquest of their city by the Greeks. History, magic, gods, and heroes collide as Andromakhe is propelled toward her fina... more info>> (Published: 2006) POW! Award First Place Winner
Words: 128476 - Reading Time: 367-513 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Beloved Enemy [MultiFormat]
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A Novel For Every Woman Torn Between Her Principles and Love--Dynamic women's fiction--Tensions Explode in New York City Labor Union Strike When Passions Are At War With Principles! Caroline Keller is the first labor relations representative for the nation's largest daily newspaper, The New York Mirror. The fastest in the fast lane, she's racing straight to the top. Until she finds herself bargaining not only for her employer, but also for her heart. Lester Gordon, of Cherokee Indian roots, is t... more info>> (Published: 1987)
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Clarion of Midnight--Megali Idea [Lands of the Morning #2] [MultiFormat]
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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 co... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 114065 - Reading Time: 325-456 min.
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Defy Eternity: The Scorpion Child [Lands of the Morning #3] [MultiFormat]
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Defy Eternity: The Scorpion Child is a fast-paced, gritty, passionate thriller involving politics, terrorism, and reincarnation, and the plot flows between California, New York and Istanbul. The heroine, Ariadne, an American expatriate novelist married to a Turk, lives in a dangerous, exotic world. There is also an American stage and screen star, Daniel Saxon, and Burhan, an advisor to the Turkish military junta. The plot is a cinemascopic reel of romance, high-stakes terrorism, sex, intrigue, a... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 118501 - Reading Time: 338-474 min.
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Korinna: Daughters of the Fire [Lands of the Morning #7] [MultiFormat]
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In the late Roman Republic, civil war convulses Italy and Mithradites (in what is now Turkey), the last great enemy of the Republic sees an opportunity to become the dominant force in Europe. Into violent era, a young woman, Korinna, seeks knowledge of her background--but doing so puts her between the power of Rome and the forces of Mithradites. Author Kristina O'Donnelly writes a compelling historical novel with vivid characters and fascinating research. (Published: 2006) POW! Award First Place Winner, EPPIE Award Finalist
Words: 130586 - Reading Time: 373-522 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Spring Rain on the Wind [MultiFormat]
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After attempting to burn Mairenn Morgan at the stake for witchcraft, her cousin Sir Adrian Maddox, an evil warlock, pursues Mairenn to the new world of Colonial America. There he links with an Indian Shaman, granting the Shaman power and even immortality in exchange for his support in pursuing first Mairenn and then three more generations of women descending from Mairenn. Because Mairenn's blood holds the one threat to the wizard's ultimate victory. (Published: 2007)
Words: 82439 - Reading Time: 235-329 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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The Horseman [Lands of the Morning #1] [MultiFormat]
by Kristina O'Donnelly
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What Price for Love That Defies Time? Would you pledge your soul for eternity? The Horseman is the critically acclaimed lead novel of the Lands of the Morning Quintet, a series of five exotic, internationally plotted novels. Revolving around a dynamic American heroine, The Horseman is a gripping, epic tale of intense passion, politics, spirituality, esoterica, as well as the roots of the current upheavals between the Turks and the Kurds. Complete with magnificent and diverse settings from Turkey... more info>> (Published: 1999) POW! Award First Place Winner, Jada Press Grand Prize Winner, Romantic Times Magazine Recommended Read, Angelfire Reviewer's Choice Pick
Words: 217632 - Reading Time: 621-870 min.
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Trojan Enchantment [Lands of the Morning #5] [MultiFormat]
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Rip-roaring contemporary romantic suspense/travelogue in an exotic land--Orient-Express on steroids. Cornucopia of the sights, scents, sounds and flavors of Lands of the Morning. Olivia Hayden, 24, mild-mannered librarian from Indianapolis, USA, is a chrysalis eager to be a butterfly. Until now, just about the only aspect of hers fit to be called free spirited, was her riotous, titian hair. On a tour of Turkey to fulfill her late grandfather's dream of visiting ancient Troy, she falls in love wi... more info>> (Published: 2005) POW! Award First Place Winner
Words: 136257 - Reading Time: 389-545 min.
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Waltz With the Wind [MultiFormat]
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With the appeal of a Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel novel, this is the Sweeping, Exotic, Romantic, A Daughter's Love song to her mother's memory and a deep passionate love triangle. You'll be swept off your feet From Vienna to Prague, Bordeaux, Paris, Istanbul, to New York, Bermuda, and a magnificent, emotion-wrought finale in Rome. (Published: 2000) POW! Award Second Place Winner
Words: 143875 - Reading Time: 411-575 min.
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