The Horseman (Lands of the Morning Quintet) by Kristina O'Donnelly

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Synopsis

An international epic that is TIMELY AND VERY MUCH ALIVE!

Revolving around a dynamic American heroine, The Horseman is a gripping tale of passion, politics, spirituality, esoterica, as well as the roots of the current upheavals between the Kurds and the Turks. Magnificent, diverse settings from Turkey, Mekka, Ireland, to the United States, and an intense, multi-cultural love-triangle with indomitable characters who are united in their quest for social justice.

As Ariadne, the American, Burhan, the Turk, and Mehmet Ali, the Kurd, emerge from the mists of 8,000 BC, and reunite in the 20th Century Turkey, they play out their destinies upon an explosive stage of upheavals and changes.

The plot includes reincarnation (thus some time-travel), the Tarot, and magic, and these aspects, handled in a no-nonse yet thought-provoking manner, constitute several of the philosophical threads woven throughout the story.

The Horseman opens in 1964, while the shot that rang around the world (JFK’s assassination) is still echoing throughout Turkey. During the course of the novel, the young American woman Ariadne and her Turkish husband, Burhan, will battle destructive forces as they strive to build their own version of Camelot in the nation’s capital, Ankara.

At a time when Turkey is the blood-soaked battling ground of divergent Eastern and Western interests, and the clandestine Kurdish insurgency is bubbling away like the proverbial witches’ cauldron, destiny has marked Burhan, an avowed Kemalist (progressive and pro-Western without losing the national ID), for leadership in this beleaguered nation.

After spanning Turkey, Ireland, New York and Mekka, the Horseman concludes in Tarsus,Turkey, where, at long last, love and justice prevail and an ancient moral debt rooted in the mists of Chatalhoyuk, an 8,000 years old Megalithic town, is repaid in full — because sooner or later, in some sphere which manifests itself in God’s own good time, the Harvest is gathered, and thus, Whatsoever a man soweth, so shall he also reap....