The seventh novel in the Lands of the Morning series by the award-winning author, Kristina O'Donnelly. Readers liken the depth and scope of O'Donnelly's writing to that of Mary Renault and Colleen McCullough. With the audience appeal of "The Grass Crown" by Colleen McCullough and "The Last King" by Michael Curtis Ford, "Korinna - Daughters of the Fire, I," is an intense tour-de-force into the history of Ancient Greece, Rome, Anatolia, and the plight of women in those times. Women who had no say in the course of their lives, women who lived only for their men, men who then died in one battle or the other. Locale and Time: "Korinna - Daughters of the Fire, I," begins during the first of the three Mithriadic Wars fought between the Kingdom of Pontus and the Republic of Rome for control of Anatolia/Asia Minor, from 89 B.C. onward. Consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla and King Mithridates VI Eupator, are two of the puppet-masters pulling the strings in the background. Ephesus, Sardis and Pergamum, three famous cities of Antiquity, provide the stage upon which the novel revolves. By Roman times, the matriarchal religion of Anatolia had changed, though the female principle was still dominant. The original mother-fertility goddesses were now identified with the love goddesses of Greece and Rome, Aphrodite and Venus. Korinna, an orphan novice of Artemis, and the "Holy Women" (priestess-prostitutes of Aphrodite) Melitta and Chrysanth, born during a time of chaotic transition in history that pitted not only nation against nation, but parent against child, were truly Daughters of the Fire that had swept this ancient land. "Mida, Daughters of the Fire, II," is the sequel, to be published in 2007.