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Ruby Red was the sixty-sixth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Georgia Cook and featured the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby.

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April, 1242: the Doctor and Ruby answer a distress call sent from medieval Russia. The signal's sender? Ranavere, an alien girl forced to take part in a barbaric conflict between the armies of Estonia and Novgorod on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus.

Ranavere wants to escape, but her distress call has summoned her warmongering sisters, intent on preserving family tradition whatever the cost. And as human battle begins, the Doctor and Ruby must face a more devastating threat — a monstrous entity with plans of conquest, growing stronger beneath the icy lake...

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  • The TARDIS lands on Lake Peipus in the 1200s. The Doctor claims it to be the fifth largest lake in Europe, with its deepest point being fifteen metres.
  • Ruby claims that her green coat makes her look like a "furry sprout".
  • The Doctor tells Ruby that Pskov is a city in the south recently taken by the Novgorodian army.
  • The Doctor tells Ruby that, having arrived prior to 5 April, they are "days away" from the Battle on the Ice, a huge fight between the Duchy of Estonia and Novgorod Republic, which marked the end of the Northern Crusades in the region, and cementing Prince Alexander Nemsky as a national hero.
  • The Rentaras are a family of intergalactic mercenaries. At the age of sixteen, a child of the Rentara's are sent to a random war on a random planet and told to survive.
  • Ruby has never seen wild wolves before.
  • Ruby compares the taste of the coffee from the TARDIS coffee machine to roast potatoes.
  • Ruby remarks on how the Fifteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver doesn't look like a screwdriver.

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