Books like Runaway Widow by Dilly Court

A Regency Regency Romance

An orchardist's lonely existence torn by love and pain, captured in vivid nature and human relationships.

A quest across time, from a lost girl on an Australian voyage to a Cornish inheritance, where a hidden garden holds Victorian secrets and a desperate search for justice reveals family history and forgotten loves.

An Oxford scholar uncovers evidence that the legendary Amazons existed, embarking on a perilous quest across North Africa, Greece, and the ruins of Troy to retrieve a long‑lost treasure and protect the women’s legacy.

A Chinese mother and her adopted daughter, raised by an American couple, discover how a rare native tea links their worlds and transforms their family's destiny across cultures.

After Kay learns her husband killed her children and himself in a fit of madness, she discovers a hidden power and sets out to test whether other men can repeat his brutality.

In turn‑of‑the‑twentieth‑century London, Hetty Huggins vows to protect her younger siblings after their mother dies, fighting poverty, a predatory tallyman and a long‑stride dream of entrepreneurship amid harsh social realities.

The compelling new saga set in turn-of-the twentieth-century London by the author of The Cockney Angel.Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob. In spite of her own despair, she is determined to protect her brother Tom and her baby son Georgie from Jacob's bullying ways - for she is all they have in the world.But when Jacob hires villainous Salter and his vile wife Sal to run the barge, Effie's life becomes even more unbearable, and Tom is sent packing without a penny to his name. Forced to live on deck with little to shelter her and Georgie from the elements, tormented by the Salters, Effie is driven to desperation. And stealing Jacob's hidden cache of money she escapes with her son. As she begins her frantic search for Tom, Effie vows that whatever happens she will make a home for little Georgie and keep him safe from harm.

From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets. When her grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. Jethro takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop. Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began when her grandmother taught her to read. And she starts to hope for a better future for herself. But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the rent is raised by the unscrupulous landlord. Must Charity give up her dream of running the bookshop herself, and worse, be forced to return to the streets?