The Ruby by Leland Nichols

By Leland Nichols

The Ruby chronicles the lifetime of a hillbilly family members within the Ozark desolate tract of Missouri in the course of the nice melancholy, and their try and do something about mounting difficulties caused by the mysterious arrival of a time-traveler from two-thousand years sooner or later who has develop into stranded.

The time-portation machine has tired and Dorian unearths himself in an strange and primitive lifestyles. whereas trying to find a substitute of the failed component—a ruby—he is taken in by means of the impoverished farm kinfolk and falls in love with one of many daughters.

Eventually he discovers a way to revive the ruby's energy, and prompts his machine even on the price of wasting the lady he loves and the danger of being displaced to another unpredictable location.

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