The Book of Gems

The Book of Gems, the final installment in Fran Wilde's Gem Universe series, explores what happens when truth is ground into myth by the pestle of time, and how some truths are too powerful to ever be shattered.

It's been centuries since the Jeweled Valley and its magical gems were destroyed. The Seven Kingdoms have crumbled, their memory all but dissolved into myth. In the republics that rose to replace them, scientists craft synthetic jewels to heat homes, power gadgetry, and wage war.

Dr. Devina Brunai is one of these scientists, and is perhaps the only living person who believes real gems still exist. While experimenting in a lab, she receives strange readings from a family heirloom rumored to be a page from the legendary Book of Gems. The recent unearthing of the Palace of Gems in the Valley presents her with the perfect opportunity to travel back to the land of her ancestors, search for the Book, and prove her naysayers wrong.

But her chance is snatched away at the last moment when her mentor steals her research and wins the trip for himself, his arrogant communications from the field only deepening the scar of his betrayal. That is, until his messages transform into bizarre ramblings about the Book, a Prince, and an enemy borne of the darkbefore ceasing altogether. Now Dev must enter the Valley, find her mentor, and save her research, before they too become relics of a time long forgotten.

Other books in the Gem Universe:
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
The Fire Opal Mechanism