The Shivering Sands: Caroline Verlaine's sister has gone missing and no one can tell her why. The India Fan: Drusilla's glamorous neighbors gift her a priceless family heirloom-a beautiful fans with a terrible curse 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. The stone arouses a dangerous desire in anyone who sees it-even her husband.īlending historical romance with elements of the paranormal, The Pride of the Peacock is an exhilarating tale from the Queen of Gothic Romance. 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 newlyweds inherit a fabled opal mine in Australia.
His only condition: she must marry her son, Joss.
When her only friend, an elderly neighbor, offers her the chance at a new life, she's eager to take it. Raised in the shadow of her family's financial ruin, Jessica has never felt as though she fit in. 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? 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
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