Allegra DrakosALLEGRA DRAKOS was born to a London-and-Athens based Greek family of wine and olive merchants. She was educated in the US and at St. Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens, Greece. Defying a Greek girl's imperative to marry at 18 and became a bby machine, she studied archaeology at Worcester College, Oxford, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Her research among dusty ruins has convinced her the once-great empires of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu were destroyed by a cosmic impact in 10,200 BC with earth crust displacement, volcanic eruptions in the Ring of Fire, and the near extinction of all life. Allegra spends much of the year on the island of Hydra in the Saronic Gulf. She believes in the Oxford comma, documents regional differences in Greek cuisine, raises Kotsifali grapes, and lives very much for each day. Because the next great cataclysm approaches from beyond Sirius, the Dog Star. Read More Read Less