Books like I was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

Anna Fox lives a quiet, wine‑drinking, movie‑loving life in New York, watching her neighbors through her window. One day, a sight she should never see shatters her routine and plunges her into a tense, psychological thriller.

In 1974 Atlanta, a serial cop killer rattles the police department. To investigate, a conservative force stations two women detectives, Kate and Maggie—only to find themselves drawn into the very danger they seek to eliminate.

The stunning new novel from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family. He is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position - as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II.Sixty five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget.THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSEis a novel about a young man ripped from a loving home and thrust into the heart of a dying empire. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century. His is also a story of a marriage in which a husband finds it impossible to live in the present and a wife unable to reconcile herself with the past.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya's story must finally be resolved.

Anastasia tells of Anya, the last surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II, who is discovered amnesiac in Berlin and becomes entangled in a plot to claim a 10‑million‑pound inheritance.

Evangeline, a gifted but trapped young woman, embarks on a daring escape from a political marriage to her cousin King Richard II's advisor, in search of freedom and true love.

In seventeenth‑century France, actress‑turned‑nun Juliette seeks refuge in a remote abbey during witch trials, regicide, and religious upheaval.

The biography of Anastasia Romanoff, the elusive youngest daughter of the last Russian czar, examines the unresolved mystery of whether she survived the 1917 massacre of the royal family.

A forbidden romance on the tropical island of St. Thomas, centered on the extraordinary woman who gave birth to the painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of Impressionism.