About this title: At 17, Jessica Clavering yearns for a life of excitement and romance. So when a rough Australian opal-miner buys her family's decaying ancestral mansion, she defies their orders and befriends him. From him she hears of the finest opal of all - the legendary green flash.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fawcett Crest, New York
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780449204931ISBN:0449204936
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Covers have moderate wear with creases and fading along the spine. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Interior pages are clean. #6229. read more
Edition: Edge chips/tan pg/name Blacked Out Insid
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, NY, U.S. A
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780449231982ISBN:0449231984
Description: Acceptable. 0449231984 Jessica only realizes how little she knows her "family" when she starts a relationship with the forbidden elderly gentleman that reportedly "stole" her family's estate. They become friends, and he puts her in his will. There is one condition: she must marry his son, Joss. She and Joss agree, but they decide to keep it "in name only". Her now father-in-law dies, and Jessica and Joss travel to their joint estate and opal mine in Australia. Here, Jessica becomes fonder of ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780449231982ISBN:0449231984
Description: Very Good. 0449231984 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
Description: Good. 0385122810 100% guaranteed. Good shape overall with a tight spine, good dust cover with wear and small tears, clean pages, and shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780449231982ISBN:0449231984
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. worn on edges creases in cover binding and page tight text clean no marks yellow gilt on page edges. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780002216708ISBN:0002216701
Description: Good. ---281 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The boards have only light signs of use. -Publish Place: Garden City, New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780002216708ISBN:0002216701
Description: Good in Good + jacket. -Book Club (BCE/BOMC)--282 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The boards and DJ have light signs of use. -Publish Place: Garden City, New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
"I had read lots of Victoria Holt as a teenager and wanted to check her out again. Looking at it again from an adult perspective, it seemed predictable, but I don't remember thinking that then."
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