SOONER THAN GOLD

SOONER THAN GOLD is baded on the true story of Eiza Lynch who, in 1848, at the age of 13, fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine, who, at he age of 18, was the highest paid and most sought after courtesan in all of Paris, who, as mistress of the Dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López, became Regent of Paraguay and the richest woman in the world. Together with López she involved the country in bloody war, the result of which was total disaster. SOONER THAN GOLD is Volume 1 of the trilogy. The other volumes are FIRE AND POWDER and COME TO DUST.