Books like The devil's reward by Emmanuelle De Villepin

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.

The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

A young scholar uncovers a labyrinthine family legacy, tracing the truth of Vlad the Impaler and the myth of Dracula across centuries and borders, risking life and sanity to confront an ancient evil.

A former hotel singer in London seeks to reconcile with the man who once betrayed her, only to discover he plans to exact a costly payment for the past.

After losing the man she loves, Louisa Clark must rebuild her life and find herself again while navigating grief and new relationships.

Kate, a newly widowed mother, returns to Lost Lake in Georgia—a sleepy summer resort—to heal with her eccentric daughter Devin, hoping the place’s forgotten magic and their shared past can revive the cottage community and their hearts.

Maeve Binchy’s collection of witty, heart‑warming vignettes brings the residents of Chestnut Street to life, revealing the joys, sorrows, and quiet drama of everyday Dublin neighbourhoods.

A vampire‑phoenix, Ivan Drake, must decide whether to take the Book of All Spells from the witch Dez Merevech or spare her life, as a demon’s claim on his soul and a looming war between witches and vampires threaten the paranormal realm.

A woman's desire...With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing for her. But the handsome man waiting for her at the altar is a dark, brooding stranger who rushes her into marriage, then abandons her at his country estate. Only the passion of Michael's kiss gives her hope that theirs can be more than a marriage of convenience.A man's need... With scandal shadowing his past, Michael, the Devil of Darfield, had no need for a wife. Remembering only the little hellion who made life miserable for him aboard her father's ship, he resents the agreement he made to marry her so he could save his ancestral home. Though determined to ignore her, he cannot stop thinking about his lovely violet-eyed bride. Her beauty tempts him. Her charm bedevils him. He tries to drive her away until he almost loses her. Then he vows to regain her love--before it is too late....From the Paperback edition.

When Jonathan finally proposes, Rosie agrees to move across the country, only to return home with her grandmother and a chaotic new caregiver, Tony. She faces an unexpected pregnancy, complex family truths, and the possibility of a new love.

An African‑American woman inherits a sugarcane farm in rural Louisiana and moves with her eleven‑year‑old daughter from Los Angeles to start anew, confronting family tensions, agricultural challenges, and the legacy of the South.

Molly Arnette, a San Diego adoptions hopeful, struggles to keep her guarded past hidden while facing the scrutiny of the adoption process and the looming reveal of a family secret from her North Carolina upbringing.

In early‑20th‑century Yorkshire, Lucinda is drawn into a torrid romance with a mysterious, seemingly supernatural lover whose presence threatens both her heart and her virtue.