Dark Ruby - Black River

Jaipur, India. A runaway field-gun crashes into an archway in the Amber Fort during the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, revealing a cache of jewels hidden centuries earlier by the Rajput Raja of Amber. Corporal Robertson and three of his comrades quickly spirit a quantity of the precious stones away from their hiding place. A century later, the corporal’s great-grandson, James, a retired Australian school teacher, finds references to the rubies in the corporal’s diaries. He travels to India to search for the stones: sixteen red rubies and an almost black ruby the size of a hen’s egg and said to be cursed - the Black Heart of the Moghul. But he has not counted on the Eurasian grandsons of one of those other soldiers, three part-Indians who have long known what was taken and hidden away again by the corporal, but not where. James must forge a fragile alliance with those three, an alliance which can have only one outcome.