Meet feisty, fun-loving Ruby Ross â?" thirty-four, mad red hair, mad (in general), adopted and searching for answers . . . like, precisely whose genes are responsible for the mad red hair . . . Sheâ?Ts impulsive, compulsive and unaware of what sheâ?Ts about to unleash in her quest for the truth. Isobel Ross is larger than life (despite being a serial dieter) and lives in a picturesque cottage in Donegal in the grounds of a manor-house hotel â?" but why are the new hotel-owners so keen to get rid of her?