Joseph Whiteside Boyle, a dynamic Canadian entrepreneur, amassed a fortune in gold in the Klondike, then served his country by running Russian and Ukrainian railways on the Eastern Front during World War I. Queen Marie of Romania, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was the Princess Diana of her time, renowned for her beauty and her humanitarian war work. TrueGold is the unlikely story of how their totally separate lives collided against the background of the War and the Russian Revolution. Set in Russia, Ukraine, and Romania, TrueGold is a war story, a love story, and a primer for the European conflicts of our times.