The Diva's Ruby

Excerpt from The Diva's Ruby: A Sequel to Primadonna and Fair Margaret
There is a ruby mine hidden in the heart of the moun tains near a remote little city of Central Asia, unknown to European travellers; and the secret of the treasure belongs to the two chief families of the place, and has been carefully guarded for many generations, handed down through the men from father to son; and often the children of these two families have married, yet none of the women ever learned the way to the m...