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The Pride of the Peacock

A Captivating and Mysterious Gothic Romance

The Pride of the Peacock( )
Author: Holt, Victoria
Series title:Casablanca Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4022-7746-7
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Imprint:Sourcebooks Casablanca
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $32.99
Book Description:

To secure her inheritance, Jessica 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 Clavering has never been understood or loved at the Dower House. But when a unique inheritance compels her to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine, she leaves her past behind in pursuit of a brighter future in Australia. 

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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.935 x 20.422 x 2.21 cm
Book Weight:0.27 Kilograms
Author Biography
Holt, Victoria (Author)
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.

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