Books like Star of the West by Cordia Byers

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

A Western romance novel featuring a woman with a sassy mouth and a marshal who vows to silence her with his lips.

Twin of Ice and Twin of Fire follow sisters Houston and Blair Chandler through love, ambition and frontier adventure, as each discovers passion and resilience behind the rugged West.

A rancher and a gold-digger find each other in a Texas frontier town, but their families' bitter feud threatens to tear them apart.

In Kabul in 2007, Rahima and her sisters face a drug-addicted father and limited schooling. Their only refuge is the ancient custom of bacha posh, letting Rahima grow up disguised as a boy until marriageable age.

Elena Ravenscliffe, a young English lady, is forced into a harem in Constantinople and into the arms of a wealthy man she has never been able to forget.

A scandaluous story of a Viscount returning from the Orient, and a governess who must navigate her new neighbor's unruly household to save her niece.

A daring young heroine disguises herself as a sea‑borne boy after an ill‑fated betrothal, leading to an unexpected love affair aboard a ship bound for America.

A free-spirited woman from Georgia falls in love with a spy from America in Regency London, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and Regency England, resulting in a love story of forbidden passions and duty to honor.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

In the Old West, Boston trans‑Atlantic adventurer Theodosia Worth travels west to bear a child for her sister, hiring a loyal bodyguard, Roman Montana, to protect her from ruthless suitors and a strange secret society.

An adventure tale of a young woman's quest to escape the clutches of a harem and find true love.

Lorna's tumultuous life as the Tsar's mistress spans colonial America, St. James, and St. Petersburg, from 1745 to 1796.

Brothers and sisters fight to keep their family together in the Texas hill country, while a woman trouble adds spice to their lives.

A handsome half-Cheyenne-turned-Bostonian outsider, Chase Remington, a.k.a. White Wolf, captures beautiful Stephanie Summerfield in the valley of Little Big Horn, and together they must survive the vengeance of her brutal husband and the fate of his proud but dying people.

Penelope Potter investigates her brother’s strange behavior in Victorian England, finding romance with a rogue betrothed to another woman while engaging with a mischievous spirit.

Katie Kingsford's love for a gambler comes with a price as a fierce hurricane threatens to tear them apart.

A tragic romance where a beautiful actress falls for a rich, dashing, and vengeful man who desires her.