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But, to protect her friend, Ruby must work alongside this unsettling man to find out what really happened that night.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54911775867253,"sku":"9780749031589","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780749031589_0106cc41-d309-499e-b6ad-0da7e76ea4e3.jpg?v=1786014978"},{"product_id":"9780749031633","title":"The Secret of the Three Fates","description":"October, 1922. Ruby Vaughn accompanies her elderly employer, Mr Owen, to Manhurst Castle in the wild Scottish Borders on the pretext of appraising rare manuscripts, but the truth is darker. Haunted by the loss of his son in the Great War, Mr Owen has come seeking contact through a séance led by a mysterious trio known as The Three Fates. However, as the candle smoke from the séance clears, Ruby finds a body and discovers that she and Mr Owen are the prime suspects for the murder. To clear their names, they must unravel buried secrets and confront a killer willing to silence them - forever.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685679505781,"sku":"9780749031732","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56296881258869,"sku":"9780749031633","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780749031732.jpg?v=1792598824"},{"product_id":"9780749032043","title":"The Devil in Oxford","description":"December, 1922. Ruby Vaughn expects nothing exciting from a quiet pre-Christmas visit to Oxford with her elderly employer, Mr Owen. Far from the strange and sometimes dangerous books that pass through their shop and with Mr Owen due to attend meetings of the antiquarian society, Ruby hopes for a peaceful week. But when the body of disgraced scholar Julius Harker is discovered among his exhibition of Egyptian antiquities, panic spreads throughout the city's cobbled streets. Drawn reluctantly into the mystery by an old friend, Ruby soon realises Oxford is hiding dangerous secrets - especially when Ruan Kivell, the enigmatic folk healer she met in Cornwall, unexpectedly reappears.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685938536821,"sku":"9780749032142","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56367787934069,"sku":"9780749032043","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780749032142.jpg?v=1792599188"},{"product_id":"the-lost-souls-of-saint-odas","title":"The Lost Souls of Saint Oda's","description":"Armstrong’s USA Today Bestselling and award winning Ruby Vaughn Mysteries return in The Lost Souls of Saint Oda’s. 1923. American heiress Ruby Vaughn hoped the new year would bring less murder and far less of the occult, allowing her to spend her days at the rare book shop she runs alongside her octogenarian employer, and exploring her fledgling romance with Ruan Kivell, the intriguing folk healing Pellar she met in Cornwall. But fate often has other plans. Ruby has long believed her entire family died when the Lusitania sank in 1915, however when her solicitor brings news that her mother inexplicably survived the catastrophe and he believes he’s found her in a Belgian hospital just across the channel, Ruby dares not hope it’s true. For if there’s one thing Ruby Vaughn knows, it is that hope is the surest way to a broken heart. With trepidation, Ruby and Ruan set off for Belgium with a simple task—to go to the hospital at Saint Oda’s priory, find her mother, and bring her home. However, upon her arrival at the priory, Ruby learns the woman they sought had died and been hastily buried days before. Stunned, Ruby refuses to believe that her mother is truly gone. Perhaps it is her jaded heart, or all the time she’s spent lady detectiving as her employer, Mr. Owen, calls it, but the more Ruby inquires into the woman’s fate, the more suspicious the death becomes and Ruby and Ruan fear that both the occult and murder are at work in Belgium. As Ruby unfurls the mystery surrounding the woman, she finds more missing souls and a sinister secret that has been simmering at Saint Oda’s since the Great War and it’s up to Ruby to find the truth.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57629202284917,"sku":"9781250374684","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781250374684.jpg?v=1791213098"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jess-armstrong.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}