title: Fortune Is a Woman
author: Adler, Elizabeth
description: The Fabulous Lai Tsin Empire...The three met in the aftermath of San Francisco's devastating 1906 earthquake - the Mandarin Lai Tsin, a runaway American heiress, and a young Englishwoman. Against all odds they made their dreams come true, building one of the world's largest trading companies and most luxurious hotels...
  
  The Lai Tsin Curse... They had only each other - and bloody secrets to bury even as they rose to dizzying heights, wary of love yet vulnerable to passion in its most dangerous forms..
  
  The Lai Tsin Legacy...The Mandarin would pass his multibillion-dollar empire only to the women in the Lai Tsin dynasty - along with one last devastating truth...
  
  Sweeping from the turn of the century through the 1960s, from the Orient to San Francisco to New York, this is the powerful story of new wealth and old privilege, of family passions and posssessions, a riveting saga of romantic intrigue.