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?