The Bhunda Jewels — Anne Worboys

A drama story of ancient sacrifice, fabulous jewels--and a terrible secret.

Immediately after his mother's death, Ashley Bellamy mysteriously disappeared without a trace. Six months later, his half-sister Jane receives a card postmarked from Kodapur, giving her the only clue to his whereabouts. Alone, she travels to the remote Indian town certain she will find him.

Instead, the circumstances surrounding his disappearance become even odder. Jane learns that it is irrevocably linked with the ancient sacrificial ritual due to take place at the Bhunda cave and the existence of the fabulous jewels hidden deep within it.

Suddenly Jane finds herself plunged into a web of intrigue and violence where her life is hanging by a thread -- a thread as fine as one of the strands of blood red rubies which make up THE BHUNDA JEWELS