Peter Arnold's fate was decided the day he was born, and now he will die unless he can find his life-saving cure. When Peter, a teenage musical prodigy, collapses on the biggest night of his career, he receives crippling news and the prognosis is grim. Peter's life changes forever when he learns a secret about his family history and it leaves him with only one option to save his life. Problem #1 That option is impossible. Now he is racing to find a life-saving cure and time is short. Ruby in the Water is a clean and wholesome, coming-of-age story about a boy who is forced to figure out his secret family history in order to save his own life.