Books like The duke's ballad by Andre Norton

A reimagining of the epic tale of the Mahabharat, told from the perspective of Panchaali, the wife of the Pandavas, as she balances her wives' kingdoms and faces the threats of war and betrayal.

When Alexandra inherits her father's farm in 1880s Nebraska, she battles poverty, family loyalty, and love in a harsh pioneer world.

A coming‑of‑age tale set in 19th‑century England, following siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver as they navigate love, family duty and society’s expectations at the eponymous mill.

When duke Harry Norcliffe refuses a dance contest, a charming maid’s vivacious presence forces him to rethink duty, love, and the rigid norms of Regency London. The pair’s flirtatious encounters test status and desire.

A charming blend of romance and history, this engaging historical romance novel showcases the complex bonds of family and the challenges of love and duty.

A Dominican family uprooted from Santo Domingo in the 1960s relocates to the Bronx, where the García sisters navigate adolescence, cultural change, and family expectations while learning to claim their own identities.

In the Victorian Rebels series, the widow Imogen Pritchard reunites with Cole Talmage, Duke of Trenwyth, the man who once seduced her as a maid.

When imprisoned on Serenity Island, former betrothed Portia confronts the Duke of Sinclair—whose arrogant nihilism once shattered her love—and the island’s indulgent orgy that awakens her deepest, forbidden desires.

The Princess Bride is a fantasy romance by William Goldman, blending adventure, humor and love into a 'ruritanian romance' style tale.

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.

In Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers, the loss of a great war and the quest for memory intertwine as Klara Becker, a gifted carver from a German‑settled Ontario community, channels her grief into the Vimy Ridge memorial.

Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She secretly teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land until she must face the king's best knights in a jousting tournament. Will she be ready?

Princess Meredith Penwyck and Duke Pierceson Prescott ignite a modern royal romance after a secret kiss at a wedding, unearthing dark pasts and the chance to heal a wounded heart.