The Volga Ruby

Set amidst the vast social and political upheavals in late Imperial Russia, The Volga Ruby tells of a dynasty shaken by revolution and now imperiled by domestic plots and enemies abroad.  With the European powers locked in an arms race and drifting, seemingly irreversibly, towards war old rivalries must be set aside and new friendships forged. Fresh out of Sandhurst and into the Hussars, James Fitzhugh is assigned to St. Petersburg as a Military Attaché to help smooth the progress of an alliance between the British and Russian empires. Following a dramatic duel the young Englishman soon finds himself alone and on the run, plunged into the middle of intrigue and plot at the magnificent court of the Romanovs.

The Volga Ruby is the first novel from Peter Jobes.