Lady Audley's Secret: A Psychological Thriller of a Wife's Hidden Past
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ISBN13: 9798192482452
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lucy Graham seems to have escaped an ordinary life when she marries the wealthy Sir Michael Audley. Beautiful, charming, and adored by nearly everyone she meets, the new Lady Audley appears perfectly suited to the peaceful estate she now calls home. But Lucy has a past she cannot afford to uncover. When George Talboys mysteriously disappears after visiting Audley Court, his friend Robert Audley refuses to accept the easy explanation that George simply left England. His search draws him deeper into the secrets surrounding his uncle's young wife-and toward the possibility that the gentle woman everyone trusts may be capable of far more than deception. Lady Audley's Secret is a domestic psychological thriller built around marriage, hidden identity, family secrets, manipulation, and the slow collapse of a respectable household. Blending psychological thriller tension with domestic suspense, the story turns Audley Court into a pressure chamber where every relationship becomes dangerous and every new discovery threatens the life Lucy has constructed. As Robert closes in, suspicion becomes pursuit, secrets become weapons, and Lady Audley is forced to decide how far she will go to keep her past buried. This rewritten public-domain adaptation of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret preserves the central characters, mystery, relationships, major conflicts, and essential events of the original while presenting them through rewritten prose with greater psychological immediacy. For readers of family secrets thrillers, marriage thrillers, psychological suspense, missing-person mysteries, dangerous wives, hidden pasts, and dark domestic fiction, Lady Audley's Secret asks a simple question: how well can you ever know the person sleeping beside you?
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