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What if your life belongs to others—and claiming it means facing the secrets that keep you hidden?
The Bride of the Tomb and Queenie's Terrible Secret are sensation novels by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. Captive heroines, hidden identities and buried pasts shape their world. A young woman is shut away or concealed, and the struggle to reclaim a life gives these stories their urgency.
Miller writes for readers who want strong feeling and a plot that moves. Here, romance meets Gothic peril, and danger enters the respectable home. Love runs deep, wrongs weigh heavily and chance matters. The pull lies in watching women under pressure find the courage to claim lives that others control.
What you’ll discover
- Tales of peril Enter The Bride of the Tomb and Queenie's Terrible Secret for romance shadowed by danger.
- Heroines under pressure Follow women whose hardship makes the fight for a life of their own feel urgent.
- Secrets beneath the surface Hidden identities and buried pasts draw you toward the mysteries at each story's heart.
- Feelings without restraint Let yourself enter melodrama where love is deep and every wrong carries weight.
- The courage to reclaim Discover the appeal of heroines who must challenge the forces that keep them hidden.
Who will love it
You will love these books if you enjoy old-fashioned melodrama, secret identities, daring escapes, detectives on a trail, and heroines who stand up to wicked schemers.
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- Lily's death hides a living prisoner
- Lily discovers another woman in captivity
- Shelton follows evidence instead of ghosts
- Queenie's admirer brings gifts and dread
- Queenie returns carrying an unnamed secret
- A wedding gift becomes a trap
- Possession and jealousy imitate love
- Ghostly shocks conceal human schemes
- Being wronged does not erase goodness
Who’s who
- Lily LawrenceA gentle banker's daughter, engaged to Lancelot Darling, who is declared dead and held prisoner by a man she refuses to marry.
- Lancelot DarlingLily's loyal betrothed, who grieves her deeply and is slowly drawn by pity and good manners toward another woman.
- Mrs. VanceA graceful widow living in the Lawrence house who loves Lancelot and will do anything to win him.
- Harold ColvilleA wealthy, idle gentleman whose love for Lily turns to obsession, and who schemes with Dr. Pratt to keep her.
- Queenie LyleA willful, golden-haired girl of seventeen who sells her fan for a ball dress and carries a dark secret.
- Captain ErnscliffeA handsome, flirtatious officer who falls truly in love with Queenie and offers her marriage.
- Sydney LyleQueenie's proud older sister, who resents her beauty and guards her own hopes of marriage.
- Leon VintonA charming, ruthless stranger with a satanic smile who pursues Queenie and plays with the hearts of simple girls.
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The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret
A bride lies dead in her wedding satin, yet a doctor sees life in her, and a vault waits to be opened.
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A bride lies dead in her wedding satin the day before her wedding, a small jeweled dagger in her hand. A jury calls it suicide.
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A bride's apparent suicide hides a crime
Lily Lawrence is eighteen, rich, loved and due to marry Lancelot Darling the next day. On a June morning her father forces open her locked door and finds her on the carpet in her wedding satin, a jeweled dagger in her hand. A coroner's jury rules that she took her own life in a moment of madness.
The widow Mrs. Vance says Lily had strange spells of depression. Dr. Pratt, a tall, dark physician, gives his evidence in a clipped voice. At the funeral his eyes miss nothing. Afterward he calls on Harold Colville, a rich man who loved Lily and was turned away.
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret.
Miller, A. M., Mrs. (2026). The bride of the tomb, and Queenie's terrible secret. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret.
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What is The Bride of the Tomb about?
It follows Lily Lawrence, a New York banker's daughter who seems to kill herself the night before her wedding. In fact a doctor and a rejected suitor steal her from the vault and hold her prisoner, while a detective starts to follow the clues.
What is Queenie's Terrible Secret about?
It tells of Queenie Lyle, a lively girl who sells her painted fan to attend a ball and attracts a handsome captain. A mysterious year in her past shadows her marriage and brings enemies and a stage career.
Are these stories true?
No, they are fictional Victorian sensation novels by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, who died in 1937. They were written for a popular audience and use invented people, settings in New York and London, and many dramatic turns.
The author
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
1850–1937 · American dime novelist
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller was the pen name of Mittie Frances Clarke Point Miller, an American novelist born in 1850. She lived in the United States and died in 1937. She wrote dime novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Slighted Love and Little Golden’s Daughter.
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