Books like The Dastardly Duke by Eileen Putman

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

A love story set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, where Anne Elliot finds herself amidst the Regency era as her sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, leading to an unexpected reunion with Captain Frederick Wentworth and the return of her beloved.

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A Regency romance with a twist of fairy tale elements, where a prince's marriage to a princess isn't enough to win over a young, beautiful woman who resists social conventions.

Four Regency‑era short stories in which dashing rakes, scandalous affairs, and the pursuit of love collide with social expectations, bringing heart‑warming romances and daring escapades to life.

During Regency England, Kitty Penicuik must navigate a family fortune and a demanded dowry, all while navigating a love triangle involving her cousin Frederick and the rakish Jack Westruther.

Lord Giles Cardross believes his 18‑year‑old wife, Helen, loves him, but her frivolous ways and rising debts make him question whether she married for money. Family scandals and hidden truths threaten their union.

A scandalous, romance-driven tale of a notorious duke who fakes a ward, only to return and demand his bride’s devotion in exchange for their wedding night.

A trio of light Regency romances where love and duty intertwine, featuring Cathleen Clare’s The Impossible Bride, a spinster torn between family duty and the man she loves.

During Regency London, Fallon O'Rourke disguises herself as a footman to protect herself in the mansion of the notorious Duke Dominic Hale, while their secret lives and hidden desires gradually threaten to reveal each other's truths.

A Regency romance that explores the social customs and courtship rituals of early 19th‑century Britain, following a wayward woman navigating love and societal expectations.

A lonely widow receives a marriage proposal from an earl's handsome son, but the earl's own son schemes to sway her with wealth and affection, leaving her caught between duty and desire.

In the quaint village of Loves Bridge, single woman Isabelle – a self‑defined spinster – moves into the famed Spinster House to escape courtship, only to discover her new landlord is Marcus, the handsome Duke of Hart, and the key to breaking an age‑old curse.

A love story between a middle-aged man and a young woman from a partisans' family in London, set against the backdrop of the 1970s, exploring the seductive power of storytelling.

Unpaid and under-appreciated journalist Miss Eve Shelling never goes anywhere without a trusty notebook and her overprotective Duenna—who happens to be a bullmastiff. Eve learned the hard way that men are not to be trusted. She’s definitely not falling head-over-heels for the deceptively charming subject of her front-page column. Local blacksmith Monsieur Sébastien le Duc is the pillar of his community—when he’s not pillaging elsewhere. He’s a rakish dandy with a heart of stolen gold and two teeny tiny secrets. One happens to be a wee international smuggling operation. The other involves losing his heart to an ambitious journalist determined to expose the truth at any cost…

Sheriff Troy Davis struggles to find love in the small town of Cedar Cove while dealing with the unexpected death of his daughter and a series of mysterious break-ins.

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.

A grand duke, his court, and a love spell during a ball set the stage for a triumphal romance between him and an English maid, whose marriage of convenience is tested by the lingering magic and their growing affection.

Ledger, the Duke of Trent, visits a marriage broker’s shop and instantly falls for its owner, Emmaline Stanhope.