The Pride of the Peacock

Gothic Romance

Author: Victoria Holt

Victoria Holt demonstrates her mastery once again in her most exciting novel set in turn-of-the-century England where a young woman grows up in the shadow of the great estate – and privileged way of life – that was once her family’s birthright. But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. Th….Read More

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