Books like In the Bed of a Duke by Cathy Maxwell

Arielle Leslie, a sixteen‑year‑old, is forced into a cruel marriage with the old and abusive Paisley Cochrane. After his death she believes she is free, but the returning Earl of Ravensworth, Burke Drummond, will not let her go.

Legendary knight Hugh the Relentless and daring Lady Alice team up to recover a prized crystal, forcing a forced betrothal that blurs the line between treachery and desire in medieval England.

Wealthy London magnate Zachary Bronson finds the perfect partner in Lady Holly Taylor, a beautiful widow whose fierce passions match his own, as they navigate society’s expectations and daring desires.

A story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of 19th-century England, where an orphaned heiress seeks to prove her worth in the pursuit of a marriage of convenience.

A tale of forbidden love and dangerous secrets in the historic English mansion of Winterset.

Set in 1461 amid the Wars of the Roses, "The Captive Heart" follows Alix Givet, a woman displaced from Henry VI’s court who must navigate a forced marriage and seek refuge in Scotland, where she encounters a brooding laird who may hold her salvation.

In London’s historic streets, a woman with a hidden past and a detective hunting a killer collide, their unlikely meeting turning into a charged romance after a single, undeniable kiss.

Red Robert, a woman who has lured seasmen with a man’s identity, vows revenge against her lifelong nemesis, Blair Colm. When she and the handsome Captain Logan Hagarty are stranded on a desert isle, they must outwit Colm and defend their burgeoning love.

During the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Lucy Hathaway saves a baby girl, Maggie, and raises her through five years of turmoil and love. When the baby's true parent, banker Randolph Higgins, returns, their intertwined past sparks a tender, perilous romance.

A psychological thriller about a psychic investigator and the mysterious estate where she finds a long-lost brother.

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.

Ally Grayson, an aspiring writer, is swept into a dreamlike romance when a highwayman robs her, revealing her fiancé Mark as the very rogue she longs for.

A U.S. Marshal hunting justice for his first wife’s murder must decide if marriage to a steadfast schoolteacher will save her reputation and restore his own redemption.

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.

Lizzie McKettrick returns home for Christmas, where an avalanche-stranded train brings a handsome doctor into their lives, setting the stage for love, hope, and a family reunion amid the snowy wilderness.

A lighthouse keeper in Washington's rocky coast finds hope and love when a shipwreck survivor, pregnant and penniless, arrives on his lonely shore, forcing him to confront the secrets of his past.

In 1920s Missouri, the Jones family faces the hardships of farm life and a changing rural community as veterans return, crime rises, and jazz‑era excitement touches the small town of Fertile.

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?

A windswept island draws an outlaw drifter into a fragile romance with a woman physician, as past demons, outlaw life, and the promise of home collide.

"As a notorious member of the Heirs' Club, Bray Drakestone can't resist a challenge from one of his well-heeled colleagues--especially when it involves money and horses. But the friendly wager takes an unexpected and deadly turn. Bray is forced to agree to marry one of his challenger's five sisters--sight unseen. Now gamblers all over London are placing bets on whether Bray will actually go through with it"--Amazon.com.