The Ruby Tear — Rebecca Brand

The Jewel was just another play, but the real ruby necklace was the subject of a 1,000-year-long curse on the playwright's family. Lovely Jessamyn, in love with playwright Nicolas Griffin, fights her way to the starring role, and no one can really tell her just how perilous a choice she has made, especially when she starts responding to the romantic attentions of the enigmatic European Baron von Cragga. HC: Forge.