The Ruby Heiress is the second book in the Lucia Mistress of Monteforte series. In this book, we find our intrepid heiress, who has now been bestowed with the title and responsibility of heading the Rizzo family fortune, embarking on adventures across Europe. We share her dreams and desires; her love and her lust. Lucia's travels will take us to the Court of Louis and Marie Antoinette and the magnificent Versailles. We become voyeurs to Lucia's first introduction to Parisian high society; haute couture and sexual intimacy. Sailing from Le Havre across the English Channel to England, Lucia is transported to the unwelcoming inhabitants of Wallingston Castle. For the first time in her life Lucia finds both misery and ecstasy in a foreign land that will never accept her. She is an unwitting partner and victim to the evils that lurk in the dark dungeons of an ancient castle. Evil has cast its wicked shadow upon our beautiful young heiress. It is with great self-sacrifice that Lucia returns to her beloved Monteforte with renewed determination but with a broken heart. Lucia has grown in endless ways on this journey. She has loved and lost; and found an inner courage she did not know she possessed. Come; follow the red haired enchantress as she discovers a world beyond the stone walls of Monteforte.