The Diva's Ruby
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780548068618
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General
First sentence: THERE is a rugby mine hidden in the heart of the mountains 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 mine from their excepting one only, and her name was Baraka, which may perhaps mean 'Blessed'; but no blessing came to her when she was born.