The pride of the peacock / Victoria Holt.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781402277467 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1402277466 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 314 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca [2014]
- Copyright: ©1976
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in 1976 by Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Opals > Fiction. Australia > Fiction. |
Genre: | Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Kirtland Community College Library | PR 6015 .I3 P75 2014 | 30775305475858 | General Collection | Available | - |
The Pride of the Peacock : A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance
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The Pride of the Peacock : A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance
A young woman uncovers her family's dark secrets in this mystery and her connection to a famously cursed gemstone in this Victorian gothic thriller from an internationally bestselling author To secure her inheritance, Jessica Clavering agrees to a marriage of convenience, but will her handsome new husband's desire for her ever surpass his obsession with a famously cursed opal? Raised in the shadow of her family's financial ruin, Jessica 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. Blending historical romance with elements of the paranormal, The Pride of the Peacock is an exhilarating tale from the Queen of Gothic Romance. Fans of Susanna Kearsley, Daphne Du Maurier, and Kate Morton will be spellbound by classic story of an overseas voyage, a cursed opal, and forbidden desire.