The Ruby's Curse (novel)

The Ruby's Curse was a novel written by Alex Kingston, featuring both River Song and Melody Malone.
== Publisher's summary ==
She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips...
1939, New York. Private Eye, Melody Malone, is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. Can Melody escape the ruby's curse?
1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't believe in curses - but is she wrong?
From the top-security confines of Stormcage to the barbarism of first-century Egypt, River battles to find the Eye of Horus before its powers are used to transform the universe. To succeed, she must team up with a most unlikely ally - her own fictional alter ego, Melody. And together they must solve another mystery: Is fiction changing into fact - or is fact changing into fiction?
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
=== Dramatis personae ===
* River Song
* Ventrion
* Death
* Cleopatra
* Caesarion
* Charmian
* Iris
* Julius Caesar
* Cat
* Tomas
* Ezra
* Sukri
* Nebi
* Oba
* Jal
* Seti
* Shenti
* Immi
* Amy Pond
* Rory Williams
* Jack Harkness
* Thirteenth Doctor
=== Melodramatis personae ===
* Melody Malone
* Horace P Wallace
* Harry Dearkin
* Phil the Kid
* Calvin Cutling
* Susan Peterson Lee
* Delores Jones
* George Badger Senior
* Mrs Badger
* George Badger Junior
* Ruby Badger
* Edwin Wivenhoe
* Marvin Motson
* Floyd
* Jerry
* Spatz
* Lenny
* Massouda
* Delilah
== Worldbuilding ==
* River is held in Cell 426.
* Stormcage defenses include nanotechnology and laser grids.
* River is the author of the paper Concomitant Development on the Ood Sphere and the Sense Sphere.
* Jack and Death own the latest model of vortex manipulator, capable of carrying two at a time.
* Death has the claw of a Raxacoricofallapatorian.
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
* River explains she's "half-human on her mother and father's side." (TV: Doctor Who)
* River was raised by the Silence and Madame Kovarian. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
* River mentions that the Doctor has lost her parents forever. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
* River recalls that her first novel was written purely as a message for the Doctor. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
* River recalls writing The Angel's Kiss. (PROSE: The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery)
* Amy plans to take over the writing of the Melody Malone series. (WC: Rory's Story)
* River is familiar with Jack Harkness. (AUDIO: R&J)
* River mentions that there is no way of asking "Madam, what year is this?" without sounding weird. (TV: Dimensions in Time)
* River recalls she previously impersonated Cleopatra. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)
* River speculates she might be in an offshoot of the Land of Fiction. (TV: The Mind Robber)
* River's vortex manipulator is destroyed. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)
== Audiobook ==
This novel was released as an audiobook on 20 May 2021 complete and unabridged by BBC Audio and read by Alex Kingston.
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