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The pride of the peacock / Victoria Holt.

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.

Record details

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in 1976 by Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York"--Title page verso.
Subject: Opals > Fiction.
Australia > Fiction.
Genre: Romantic suspense fiction.
Romantic suspense fiction

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Kirtland Community College Library PR 6015 .I3 P75 2014 30775305475858 General Collection Available -

Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9781402277467
The Pride of the Peacock : A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance
The Pride of the Peacock : A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance
by Holt, Victoria
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Author Notes

The Pride of the Peacock : A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance

Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, 1906-1993 Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert was born on September 1, 1906 in London England. She knew she wanted to be a writer at a young age, but wasn't published util 1947, with her book "Beyond the Blue Mountains." She wrote under the pseudonym Victoria Holt, a name she used for 90 novels. In the early 70's, Burford Hibbert added another pseudonym to her repetoire, writing the first volume of her "St. Bruno" series under the name Philippa Carr. She was still writing historical fiction under the name of Victoria Holt as well as yet another pseudonym, Jean Plaidy. She used the pseudonyms Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate as well, although she did not write as much under those names. She wrote over 200 hundred novels during her writing career. In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her significant contributions to the romance genre. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert died on January 18, 1993. (Bowker Author Biography)


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