In 1969, at the age of 17, Canadian rock n’ blues singer Ruby Diamond became an American sensation with her unique blend of First Nations music mixed with the blood curdling rock of Janis Joplin, her heroine. Ruby's whirlwind career took off hard and fast until the excess of the rock star lifestyle caught up with her by the age of twenty-one. This is where her story really started, finding out who she really was and her true purpose on earth.

This biography covers her beginnings as Nadine Saganace, born in 1952 in Northern Ontario, her evolution to becoming Ruby Pearl Diamond, and the trials and tribulations just getting to the stage at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. Success does not make her life any less challenging or easier.

As she spirals out of control, and crash lands, the second phase of her life is reclaiming just that, her life, getting back to the land and appreciating the simple things. Only then can she begin the second phase of her life, and the special people in it.

Thom Ryerson returns to fiction in a triumphant way.