The pride of the peacock

ISBN: 9781402277467 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1402277466 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print 314 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca [2014]
Copyright: &copy;1976

Holt, Victoria 1906-1993 (author.).

Summary: "An overseas voyage. A cursed opal. Forbidden desire. Raised in the shadow of her family's financial ruin, Jessica Clavering has never felt as though she fit in. When her only friend, an elderly neighbor, offers her the chance at a new life, she's eager to take it. His only condition: she must marry her son, Joss. The newlyweds inherit a fabled opal mine in Australia. It's only once they arrive on the faraway continent that Jessica starts to uncover her family's dark past and her connection to the Green Flash, an exquisite and spellbinding opal. The stone arouses a dangerous desire in anyone who sees it -- even her husband."--Page 4 of cover.