INDIA... A LAND OF PASSION AND DANGER, LOVE AND BETRAYAL They eloped to an exotic palace high in the majestic hills. Bianca O'Neil, a beautiful Irish girl and Sher Khan, the passionate Prince of Tigers, ruler of Lambagh, and heir to the Peacock Throne. It was a turbulent passion... shadowed by treachery and greed, consumed by the flames of rebellion that swept the country and ultimately challenged by enemies who coveted the emblem of Sher Khan's power—the rare and wondrous jewels of... THE EMERALD PEACOCK.

Sperdutosi durante una ricognizione, il maggiore Alan Reid, di stanza in India con l'esercito inglese, viene condotto da un pastore nel palazzo di Madore. L'incontro con Sara, una bellissima ragazza indiana, accende nel cuore del giovane ufficiale un sentimento molto profondo. Ma dietro quei luminosi occhi orientali si nasconde una misteriosa e sottile angoscia...

Robert Reid, son of Muna, a temple dancer, returns to India to claim his rightful place on the Peacock Throne, but when Laura follows, enemies of the Throne try to sabotage their reunion

Sarah Longman is rescued from a disastrous marriage by young Indian ruler Sher Khan II, and her husband, seeking revenge, joins enemy forces in a conspiracy to steal the fabled Peacock jewels

'A unique blend of romance and reality and so saturated with atmosphere... the writing is beautiful.' - NORA LOFTS ON THE PEACOCK SERIES. When his adopted father and mother are killed in an earthquake, Dil Bahadur can only think of leaving India and joining his wife and young daughter in England. Before he is able to act, Dil once more encounters Amara, the beautiful Begum of Jungdah, and feels himself falling for her dangerous charms. The Begum and Dil Bahadur are unable to resist the passion that flares between them, little knowing that their previous sins are about to come home to roost... Katherine Gordon was established as an instant literary sucess with her first novel, 'The Emerald Peacock', which won her the Romantic Novelists' Award for Special Merit.