Books like Ex-duke by Edward Phillips Oppenheim

New Duke Simon Crathorne seeks a fitting wife, but his heart belongs to Lillian Mayhew, a woman desperate to prove his father's secret. Their forbidden romance threatens both love and reputation.

A rebellious young lady and a vicar’s admirer confront a brutal nobleman while a ruthless bandit’s legend fuels romance and danger.

In the Victorian Rebels series, the widow Imogen Pritchard reunites with Cole Talmage, Duke of Trenwyth, the man who once seduced her as a maid.

When imprisoned on Serenity Island, former betrothed Portia confronts the Duke of Sinclair—whose arrogant nihilism once shattered her love—and the island’s indulgent orgy that awakens her deepest, forbidden desires.

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.

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?

In the shadows of 19th‑century London, opera star Mariana Wylde is hunted as the “Harlot of Haywood Street,” while the aristocratic Grand Palace schemes to restore her name—only to find her and the formidable Duke of Valkirk surprised by a mutual, forbidden attraction.