02780cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000440011324500170015726400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000310036050801480039152016790053953400600221865300370227865300160231565300200233185600600235185600430241178525UtSlPG20260610134824.0mcr n260607r20261887utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMiller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.,d1850-193710aNina's peril 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-22  aDemian Katz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Images courtesy of the Digital Library@Villanova University.)  a"Nina's peril" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It is a melodramatic romance of jealousy and scandal that follows Nina Strangemore, a young heiress married in childhood to Talbot Strangemore, whose return from years abroad entangles them with the bewitching widow Sibyl St. Alban. Expect high emotion, sharp turns of fate, and a blend of domestic drama and suspense as love, pride, and reputation collide.

The opening of the novel begins on a wintry night with a beautiful young woman buying laudanum and drinking it, then swiftly rewinds to trace how she reached this despair. We meet Nina, who daily watches the shore for Talbot’s return, and learn her past: an orphaned heiress married at thirteen to her stepbrother Talbot at his mother’s deathbed wish, then left for years while he traveled abroad. Talbot comes home, confides to his austere aunt that he regrets the marriage and loves another, and Nina overhears, steeling herself even as she presents a cool, dignified front when they finally meet. Talbot’s yachting friends arrive—including Sibyl St. Alban—prompting a charged conservatory scene, Nina’s public outburst, and a fainting fit. That night Sibyl secretly visits Nina, twists the truth, steals a repentant love letter Talbot had slipped under Nina’s door, and goads Nina into vowing to free him; Nina slips out into the night. The sequence culminates in a shock: a mysterious intruder murders Sibyl in her room, the household rushes in panic, and a misplaced letter addressed to Nina hints at looming suspicion—setting the stage for the peril to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887  aAmerican fiction -- 19th century  aDime novels  aRomance fiction4 uhttps://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:121985740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78525