Clarion of Midnight — Kristina O'Donnelly

Clarion of Midnight is a fast-paced, international thriller with a tender love story at its core, unraveling in locales continuing to create headlines. The events span exotic Turkey and Israel, and the timing is the eve of a Military coup in Turkey - actually a front to raise the Byzantine Empire, upon the lands of the modern Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Syrians, Iraqis and Jews alike. From the Lands of the Morning, reverberates the Clarion of Midnight ... 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....