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.