Writing Ruby Emmett, a newspaper reporter, invents a magical, steam-powered writing machine. He thinks he is writing a fictional novel about a woman wearing a red coat - someone he always dreamed of meeting. However, the main character is a spirited jewel named, Ruby, who falls in love with her author, Emmett. - What? A marriage proposal as the Titanic sinks? A sinking ship is an unusual and unromantic place for a tender moment - Writing Ruby spins a romantic saga of three young women whose lives take twists and turns during 1911 1912, to the tragic sinking of the Titanic - As you near the story's climax, you'll be aboard that ill-fated Titanic - Mattie is eighteen years old. Despite her shyness, she finds her hero while sailing from Boston to Liverpool aboard the Royal Mail Ship, Arabic. - Caroline, a girl in Boston, is carrying heavy sacks of market produce, when a dashing young man driving a sleek black carriage stops beside her, and offers to drive her and the groceries she is carrying to her home. - Emmett Calhoun is a Boston newspaper reporter who invents a steam-powered writing machine. His creative writing weaves a wild yarn that takes him from Boston to London, and to the ill-fated Titanic. As Emmett authors his fictitious story, the main character in his novel falls in love with him - for real - So... how does a character in a fiction story fall in love with her author? - If you fancy cats, you will want to read how Emmett's orange tabby cat, Tabitha, survives the Titanic's watery death-grip. - Do cats "talk" to their masters? Learn how Emmett's cat helps compose this tall saga of romance and intrigue, set against one of the most dreadful, historical maritime tragedies.