Kristina O'Donnelly was born in Rome, Italy, from an Austrian mother and Italian/Albanian father, and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, until the threesome relocated to the United States.Widow of her soulmate, Michael John O’Donnelly, a native of Co. Armagh, in Northern Ireland, Kristina is at home in Italy, Austria, Turkey, Ireland, as well as the United States of America. O'Donnelly is known for offering novels described as “imbibing exotic cocktails on the Orient Express.”Her multi-cultural plots do include sizzling love affairs, but also controversial socio/political issues that are current, as well as ancient philosophies, no holds barred human emotions, and far-flung, beguiling locales.Kristina is a firm believer in the can do, will do, spirit, and that one should never give up the good fight as every person’s effort, counts.Her diversified rucksack of professional experiences include acting, writing (journalist, columnist, editor, publisher), and advertising (with the New York Daily News), union activism (The Newspaper Guild of America), even real estate sales.Her novels have received several awards and been published in the USA as well as Canada, Spain, England, New Zealand and Turkey.She is a Founder of Florida Writers Association, Inc.Her main body of work is Lands of the Morning™, a series of kaleidoscopic, exotic, international, ethnically diverse novels, with excellent potential for a TV-series. The pervading theme in the Lands of the Morning™ Series is love, as well as social justice, 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. Skeins of exotic people, places and customs rooted in Turkey and branching out to Ireland, Israel, United States of America, Italy, Greece, and Saudi Arabia, interlace the subplots with the fast-growing scheme of events, climaxing 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.Read more about this authorRead less about this author