The Pride of the Peacock - Large Print Author:Victoria Holt 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. There she will discover the mysteries and evi... more »l surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband -- and there she must find love.« less