Books like Substitute Bride by Angela Devine

A struggling bookstore owner and a billionaire enter a one‑year loveless marriage to meet their selfish goals, only to find their prize turns into a passionate romance that challenges their expectations and opens a realm of magic.

The ex-cop and librarian meet in Hawaii as they investigate a murder with rogue sensitives and para-hunters, discovering more danger than they bargained for.

Alex, a coroner, investigates supernatural activity in Hughes County, Texas, where paranormal phenomena abound and the local police force is not up to the task. Her new colleagues, including a techmage named Jack, are also paranormal, and they encourage her to use her ability to communicate with the dead to solve crimes. When her first case goes missing, Alex is transferred to a mysterious precinct where she meets Jack, who turns out to be her long-lost sister. Together, they must unravel the mystery and clear Hughes County of the supernatural threats that plague it.

When Revenger Rick Conway forces a reluctant Emma into a temporary marriage to escape her bleak life, the arrangement slips from a pact into turmoil as secrets surface and affection develops.

In a Montana small town, former high‑school sweethearts find themselves bound by a mistaken wedding reenactment—turning a chance collision into a defiant love story amid cowboys and new beginnings.

ISOLDE WOULD RATHER WED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! For the odious Harold Biggelswade was, in her opinion, a good deal worse than the devil. But her avaricious guardian, Uncle Wendall, insisted the wedding would take place in three weeks. What was a poor desperate orphan like Isolde to do? Unbeknownst to her, a notorious rake, the new Earl of Shalbourne, faced difficulties tantamount to her own. For his formidable aunt Jane now threatened to exclude him from her considerable will (ruin!) should he not marry and produce an heir forthwith. So, reluctantly, he responded to the curious ad in the London Morning Chronicle, a desperate lady's plea for a savior—a substitute bridegroom. The wedding was hasty. The honeymoon, horrific, for the odious Harold was hot on their trail. But Shalbourne found Isolde an amorous armful—for a bride acquired through the morning paper!

A Marriage of Necessity Elizabeth Goldsborough was the happiest of young ladies. Not only was she the Incomparable of the London season, she was to wed the most handsome gentleman of the ton, the dashing Simon Bellgrave. Then, shockingly, all was stripped from her. An accidental encounter with the arrogant Captain Darius St. John left her with no choice but to wed this man she barely knew. Now she was a wife in name only in a marriage of necessity...trying desperately not to fall in love with a bridegroom who had asked for her hand out of honor but bad no interest in her heart....

A debutante who flees an arranged marriage swaps lives with a mail‑order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. In the frontier town, she must navigate rustic living, raise children, and confront the truth with her new husband—and their hidden pasts.

The Little Brooklyn Bakery is a contemporary romance novel by Julie Caplin set in Brooklyn's baking scene, following the challenges and joys of running a local bakery while weaving romance, community, and culinary creativity into a heartwarming narrative.

The Awakening of Ivy Leavold is a historical romance novel by Sierra Simone that explores love and personal growth against a period backdrop.