Books like A duke by default by Alyssa cole

Julia Quinn’s Regency romance follows Sophie Beckett, a maid who infiltrates the Bridgerton household to attend a masked ball, where she captures the heart of Benedict Bridgerton and entangles herself in a love story that defies class and expectation.

Hart Mackenzie's wife, daughter, and former lover pass through a swirl of courtly intrigue, buried family secrets, and a tantalizing rekindling of old passions, all while navigating the deceptive world of 19th‑century Highland nobility.

In Regency England, the bitter Duke Gabriel Duke tests the gentle Lady Penelope Campion by challenging her to rehome the animals she nurtures, sparking a battle of wits and hearts in an unexpected romance.

Charles de Lacey, destined to become Lord Gresham, must outwit a blackmailer threatening his title while navigating a passionate, dangerous romance with the alluring Tessa Neville.

A secretarial assistant takes on a major account to prove she's better than her boss's boyfriend at her own agency.

A married woman obsessed with a past affair manipulates her friend to rekindle passion, weaving deception and desire in a tense romantic drama.

Duke: A Love Story is a stunning, deeply moving book, the warm, funny, tender and finally, tragic story of the last years of one of America's most beloved men-by the woman he loved. John Wayne and Pat Stacy were together for seven years. For all those years she was his secretary and companion, for the last five the woman he loved, so openly and with pride, and who loved him back. They shared everything together, alone and with his family and friends, and the Wayne she gives us is very different from the Wayne of legend. This is "Duke" the man, tender, loving, stubborn, generous, cantankerous, impulsive, humorous, and finally, full of rage at the cancer he had to battle for the second time in his life; the cancer that, after Stacy cared for him day after day and shared his agony, cut away at the man who had been so vital and strong-but to which he reused to succumb. Duke: A Love Story is a revelation, a book full of joy and sorrow and courage-the real John Wayne brought to vivid, loving life.

SHE'D FLED THE BED OF THE DUKE OF DEIGHTON......and returned to her life of quiet respectability. But Verity Davis-Jones could never forget Galen Bromney, "her" notorious duke, for she saw him daily in the face of their child—the daughter she must deny him, along with her heartfelt love! Ten years of self-imposed exile had done little to dissuade Galen Bromney of the rightness of being with Verity. Yet how would he ever convince the woman of his dreams that a life together raising their daughter was his deepest desire?

After a rocky marriage, Jay Crawford meets the irresistibly seductive Ashlee Anderson. A one-night stand turns into a fiery, obsessive affair where devotion and turmoil collide, forcing Jay to confront whether love or danger wins.

Sixteen‑year‑old Kyra Jones navigates the temptations of fast money, designer brands, and drug‑dealing boyfriends while living in Chicago. When her mother receives a job that forces the family to relocate, Kyra must leave the gang‑ridden streets behind and start anew, facing new challenges and hoping to outrun the past.