Books like The scoundrel's honor by Christi Caldwell

Set in north England, Jane Eyre follows an orphaned governess who faces abuse, hardship, and ultimately a complicated love with her employer, Edward Rochester, while contemplating marriage to her austere cousin St. John Rivers.

An intimate exploration of social class, marital conflict, and romantic desire set in early twentieth‑century England.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles follows Tess Durbeyfield, a rural woman from a poor family, as she confronts poverty, social injustice, and the rigid expectations of early 20th-century English society.

During Regency England, 25‑year‑old Emily Maitland elopes with a dashing Major Sheridan Blake, only to discover the man at her side is a counterfeit. As secrets unravel, an agent of the Ministry and a spy scheme threaten their fragile romance.

Set in a wartime English seaside town of the 1790s, Sylvia's Lovers follows a young woman torn between the passionate whaling harpooner Charley Kinraid and her devoted cousin Philip Hepburn, whose secret withholding ends in tragedy.

A Regency romance in which a duke must secure his line while his illegitimate son, Devlin St. Just, faces a tangled inheritance and unplanned guardianship that tests love and duty.

A spymaster faces accusations of treason and must choose between protecting his covert contacts and revealing secrets that could endanger everyone.

A spirited debutante battles her affection and resentment toward her brother’s best friend, the rogue Viscount Camden, in this Regency romance set in England’s social circles.

In Anthony Trollope’s 1863 novel *Rachel Ray*, a young woman must abandon her fiancé amid unfounded rumors spread by her community, including her sister and the pastors of her family's churches.

After years amassing wealth in India, Lord Whitly returns to England obsessed with the spirited Welsh woman, Megan Powel, who has suppressed her vivacity by his earlier mockery. Amid playful wagers and rising tension, he must decide if love outweighs his riches.

The Hathaway sisters' younger sister Catherine Marks must confront her feelings for Leo, a brother who proposes a dangerous love that could end her life and jeopardize her family's future.

A dashing 18th‑century rogue, Brandon St. John, steals a legendary talisman ring that promises true love, but every pursuit brings a dangerous conspiracy—will his heart win or doom his fortune?

A Regency‑era historical romance following the intertwined lives of an earl and his bride in England.

Lord John Redgrave discovers a child he believes is his, abandoned outside his gentleman's club, and must persuade the young woman who raised her, Laurel, to keep the daughter and her mother.

(The seventh book in the Malory Family series) Jeremy, the son of gentleman pirate James Malory, falls in love.... When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he wants her as his mistress. Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Although she is drawn to Jeremy by passionate feelings she has never experienced before, she refuses to be anything more than a servant to him because she knows he is not the marrying kind. When Danny undergoes a Cinderella-like transformation and poses as Jeremy's new love in an attempt to help him avert a scandal, a few highly placed members of the ton remark on how familiar Danny looks. Now tongues are wagging, raising the question of her true identity, which threatens not only Danny's chances of capturing Jeremy's heart but her very life. With the humor, lovable characters, and romantic intensity that have placed Johanna Lindsey's six previous Malory novels in the ranks of the best-loved and most widely read romantic novels of our time, Johanna Lindsey delights readers with an emotionally powerful tale of an irresistible scoundrel who meets his match in a brave, strong-minded young woman and can't help but fall in love.

Widower Ethan Grey struggles to rebuild his life after a fraught marriage, finding unexpected hope in his sons' governess, Alice Portman, as past secrets threaten their renewed bond.