A suspenseful romance set in turn-of-the century England, where a young woman grows up in the shadow of a 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 fable opal mine and leads her to far away, Australia. There she will discover the mysteries-and evil-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.