Books like No Conventional Miss by Eleanor Webster

A wealthy duke's mysterious romantic pursuit of a dour socialite sets off a dangerous game of wits and intrigue in 19th-century England’s aristocracy, with the initials J.R. as a crucial clue.

In Regency England, ambitious politician Lord Malcolm Breckonridge mounts a search for a politically advantageous bride, only to find himself drawn into an unexpected attraction toward the charming chaperone Sarah Compton, who may be the woman he truly desires.

After a life‑saving rescue, Miss Sarah Hunter returns to London for a Season, hoping to rekindle a romance with Mr. Elworthy. But his once‑pristine reputation is now shadowed by whispers, and Sarah must decide whom to trust.

A young vicar’s daughter, Robina Percival, discovers that her Season in Town coincides with the courtship of Daniel, Lord Exmouth, a widower with two daughters. As intrigue and romance unfold, Robina questions her own role in a potential love that may already be bound.

When Marietta Warrington’s family faces ruin, they rent the abandoned estate Lanterns, where she meets the enigmatic smuggler Diccon—whose hidden honor may offer a hope for new beginnings.

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Zoe Rose never quite fit in. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie" wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was).In second grade, after seeing her best friend ridiculed for wearing a dirty, pink, polka-dot party dress to school every day, she became obsessed with understanding what makes normal girls tick and why they're so cruel to the girls who never seem to "get it."And so Zoe begins a lifelong study of girl behavior, and by thirty, finds herself editor of Issues magazine. Determined to raid the locker room of the female psyche and rip open the frilly facade of femininity once and for all, she sets out to reform an entire nation of women, beginning with the readers of the most notorious magazine on Madison Avenue.It's the feminist vs. the fashionistas.Can Zoe stop girls from behaving badly toward other girls, and turn them into a strong, united force that can succeed in our male-dominated world? Or will her spectacularly warped sense of humor, pathetic wardrobe, and plethora of psychosomatic illnesses get her eaten alive?Zoe's willing to risk losing it all, including her mind, but she'll walk away with something she never dreamed she wanted: the little girl hiding inside of her.

Thad Shippen, a town outcast, falls for the virtuous Miss Chloe Miller, daughter of the local minister. Their unlikely romance tests community expectations, faith, and the boundaries of love and duty.

In the Regency era a headstrong young woman, Arabella Fairingdale, seeks to improve the harsh working conditions at a Manchester mill run by her co-inherited Lord Ridgeton, a war hero who must confront his trauma and the cost of social conscience.