Doctor who: the ruby's curse - Alex Kingston

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?.