Welcome to the Azurite Encounter website!
I'm Jane Frances Ruby, author of The Azurite Encounter

Read the latest Reviews! Click on the Reviews tab and read about all the reviews. As of August 15, I have 10 reviews from Amazon and other retailers. Always looking for more to publish! Email me your review: jane@TheAzuriteEncounter.com

Happy 100th Birthday, Arizona! As of Tuesday, February 14 I have completed 375 pages of my next novel, "Voiceless Whispers." Did some editing and more research in order to reach this point. I am learning tons more by the minute!

April 2. My work on the sequel has come to a screeching halt because I decided to super-revise "The Azurite Encounter." After reading a few, more recent junior high reviews, I decided to better clarify some narration that was inserted between dialogues. It seemed difficult for some of the readers to follow. Some described having to go back and read passages over again. So because of this, I felt a need to un-complicate these narrations, thereby improving the flow. So tell me what you think. Email me @ jane@TheAzuriteEncounter.com!

About The Azurite Encounter:

"My people believe that wearing Azurite can heal the damaged soul."Desiree Sumner needs massive healing when she enters high school. Her parents' separation and the death of her beloved grandfather throw her life into upheaval. She loses most of her interests and falls into a hazy kaleidoscope of daydreams. 

By her senior year, she's begun to heal when she learns of geology field trip to the Grand Canyon an adventure she and her grandfather had intended to have someday.

Their geology teacher mysteriously omits the camp's location from the permission slip and is oddly secretive about the real purpose for this annual trip. When the class finally arrives at the canyon, they are met with warm rains and a record snowmelt that causes the canyon waterways to overflow. The rising waters cut Desiree off from her group, and she encounters the forces of the Grand Canyon, the most frightening thing that's ever happened to her. Will she be able to escape with her life?

About Me I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from John Carroll University. My experiences serving the Alpine Valley Ski Patrol, playing beach volleyball, and race sailing provided many ideas forThe Azurite Encounter, my first novel. My husband, David and I live in Phoenix, Arizona along with our daughters, Alaina and Gillian. We all contributed to the book's content.

Read more about how I got this whole thing started on the "Author" page.