Books like Desperate Hearts by Alexis Harrington

Philippa Roscoe needs urgent money to save her father's life, while wealthy French businessman Alain de Courcy seeks a business‑oriented wife. Their marriage of convenience quickly turns into a passionate romance.

A rugged romance set in a Western frontier where a wounded renegade hunts a price on his head, while a strong-willed woman wrestles with desire and duty.

An undercover reporter follows a celebrity into rehab to uncover juicy gossip about her personal life.

WHEN LOVE SEEMS OUT OF REACH... Chloe Maitland had begun to think of herself as the town spinster. Living alone in her father's house in a dying Oregon mining town, she had put away her girlish dreams and prayed for something more practical: that someone would answer her ad for a blacksmith to run the shop that was her father's legacy to her -- and her only hope of holding onto her homestead. But the exhausted stranger who collapsed in her front yard looked as dangerous as the devil himself ... and he was far more dangerous than Chloe could imagine. ...ALONG COMES A STRANGER Travis McGuire was a man who seemed to have no past and no future. He was doomed to the life of a wanderer and knew that his desire for Chloe had to be contained. But he hadn't anticipated finding a woman like Chloe -- a woman willing to look his past in the face, to risk everything she had for the one true love she'd never thought she could find.

He watched her day and night, learning her habits, her desires. Ex- CIA agent Drew Evans had come to Maggie Cannon's isolated home to prove his innocence. Desperate and on the run. Drew's only hope lay in gaining the young widow's help. But involving her and her little girl could put them at risk- yet what choice did he have? The sensual and mysterious stranger Maggie caught on her land told an incredible tale of murder and betrayal. And yet, she couldn't deny the truth. . . or her own attraction to him. Harboring a fugitive put her life at risk- yet falling in love with him might put her heart in the greatest danger of all. . ."