Ruby's Palace, Paperback

The Vincents' nightclubs are popping up all over London.The O'Connells, a gypsy family, plan to get their hands on the Palaces, but gypsies have no place in business... not the Vincents' business.Their hunger for revenge is driven by jealousy and greed. Disregarding the warnings and the rumours of the disappearance of the entire McManners family, the O'Connells plot a scam so cruel even their own kind shuns them.Ruby Vincent is now fifteen, and she may look like her aunt Francesca, but she still has Jesse Right's blood running through her veins. Turning her back on the family, she goes in search of the truth. What she finds will haunt her... She should have left the boogie man to rot in hell.'When you've made your bed, you must lie in it.'

Kerry Barnes, born in 1964, grew up on a council estate in the South East. Pushed by her parents to become a doctor at a time and in a place where women only dreamed of having a professional career, she started off as a microbiologist and then went into medicine. She began writing when her daughter was born and she had free time, and by the time her children were grown, she had written four novels. Ruby's Palace is the second to be published, following Ruthless.