Lock and Key (novel)
After her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her, child services forces 17-year-old Ruby Cooper to move in with her sister, Cora, who had left for college when Ruby was young. Ruby is upset about this arrangement and continues to wear the key to her old home on a chain around her neck. After learning she will be transferring to a new high school, Ruby attempts to run away but is found out. Nate Cross, Jamie and Cora's next-door neighbor, covers for her. Over the span of the story, Ruby slowly becomes closer to Nate.
Ruby Boye
Ruby Olive Jones was born in the Sydney suburb of St Peters on 29 July 1891, the fifth of eight children of Alfred Jones, a storeman, and his wife Emily née Wild. On 25 October 1919, she married Sydney Skov Boye, a laundry proprietor, at St Stephen's Anglican Church in Newtown. They had two sons, Ken and Don.