Books like Runaway Widow (the Rockwood Chronicles, Book 3) by Dilly Court

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.

In Depression‑era America, five women form the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky, delivering books across the mountains while challenging gender roles, forging deep friendships, and confronting the era’s hardships.

An American college girl in 1947 discovers her belated quest to uncover the fate of her vanished French cousin during WWI, leading her to the shadowy Alice Network where a former spy haunted by betrayal seeks vengeance.

A young lady escapes a cruel betrothal by disguising herself as a maid and slipping out the window in the night.

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.

In the quiet town of Koomera Crossing, Laura Graham seeks refuge, only to find her past and newfound love tangled with the mysterious Evan Thompson, whose hidden depths mirror her own secrets.

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.

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.

When sixteen-year-old Noa is forced to abandon her child after a forbidden pregnancy with a Nazi soldier, she discovers a boxcar of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and steals one to escape.