This historical fiction began as a story about one of the most remarkable women to emigrate to Canada prior to WW1. Born Irene May Blair she landed as the Countess Bubna-Litic, the divorced, single mother of two girls. It was 1914 and a world war was just months away. She was eccentric, bloody minded and wealthy beyond imagination, having accumulated a fortune from her own family and through her divorce from Count Franz Bubna-Litic, an Austrian blue blood.