Books like The Dreadful Duke by Barbara Hazard

In "Dragonfly in Amber," Diana Gabaldon transports readers across time to 18th‑century Scotland and France, following Claire Randall’s return with her daughter Brianna to uncover family secrets tied to the Jacobite uprising.

A scandalous, romance-driven tale of a notorious duke who fakes a ward, only to return and demand his bride’s devotion in exchange for their wedding night.

A love story of widow Madeline May and notorious Viscount Altea, who turn to each other for help in dealing with men of ill repute while the blackmail situation escalates into murder.

After giving up her out‑of‑wedlock son, Kate Woodward finds healing by helping former Confederate soldier Robert Markham rebuild his life in post‑Civil War Atlanta, only to discover their bond may bring them a new, enduring love.

In Regency London, the mysterious disappearance of Lady Elena Morrow threatens to ignite a scandal that could ruin her reputation and that of her family, while Viscount Andrews vanishes simultaneously, drawing the determined Lord Benjamin Wallace into a race to uncover the truth before whispers destroy everything.

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 wounded cavalry officer finds hope again after surviving battlefield carnage and betrayal, when he meets an army surgeon's daughter in Fort Larned, Kansas, and the two must dare to rebuild trust and love on the Western frontier.

When Sarah Palmer, left orphaned and destitute, is offered an arrangement by Gabriel Harrington—a man of genteel lineage yet an unruly stranger—she chooses marriage as her only escape and discovers a passion that transforms their doomed wedding into something real.

A Regency-era romance set in England, featuring a determined lady who must marry a man she doesn't love in order to save her nephew.

Tamarisk follows a young woman of mixed French and English heritage navigating the intrigues of Regency England, exploring unrequited love and daring adventures that test her beauty and passion.

A passionate and tempestuous woman from Georgian London embarks on a journey across Europe to find the love she had lost to a French nobleman, only to discover that her true heart belongs to a man who has been waiting for her in Russia.

In Regency England, orphan Sophie Langford is drawn into the house of the eligible fifth Duke of Belfont, James, where her bold spirit and candid nature spark an unlikely romance.

A 19th‑century love triangle set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand, where sisters Marianne and Marguerite vie for William Ozanne’s heart, intertwining romance, sacrifice, and family loyalty.

At fifteen, Jane Austen dreams of purpose, writing, and love. A chance visit to her brother in Kent introduces the alluring Edward Taylor, sparking romance and a mischievous matchmaking adventure amid the era’s social customs.

Colonel Graham Talbot returns from war to a small town full of courtship temptations, while his neighbor Ellie Anderson plots a sham romance to shield both of them from unwanted suitors and protect her plantation.

An illegitimate young woman, Frederica Bracewell, rises from neglect to become a lady when a new gamekeeper enters her life, while Lord Robert Mountford, exiled and fallen in manners, finds redemption amid temptation and social transformation.

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.

A romance novel about a widowed widower and a spirited young woman who sets out to prove that age isn't a barrier to love in a small town in the South during the 1930s during the Great Depression. The book explores themes of perseverance and overcoming adversity through the love story of Reed Tyler, a young man who dreams of settling down on his own land with the woman he has promised to marry, and Hattie Colfax, a spirited young woman who runs her family's farm and dreams of a brighter future for her family. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and explores themes of perseverance and overcoming adversity through the love story of Reed Tyler, a young man who dreams of settling down on his own land with the woman he has promised to marry, and Hattie Colfax, a spirited young woman who runs her family's farm and dreams of a brighter future for her family.

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?