Books like Crash and burn by Fern Michaels

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

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.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

When college student Hannah Wells offers to tutor hockey captain Garrett Graham in exchange for a fake date, their enemies‑to‑lovers dynamic sparks a slow‑burn romance and steamy chemistry that will have readers swooning.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

Firefly Lane follows two women, Kate and Tully, from teenage years through three decades of love, loss, and an unbreakable bond that shapes their lives in the Pacific Northwest.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Seven women unite in a tight‑knit sisterhood to exact revenge on the senator who betrayed Julia Webster, turning political betrayal into a personal payoff.

Sugar Beth Carey returns to her Mississippi hometown, broken and disillusioned, but the town’s unforgiving residents, former friends, and a powerful ex‑boyfriend are determined to exact revenge, testing whether she can earn a second chance.

A tight-knit group of friends, the Sisterhood, gathers at Myra Rutledge’s Virginia home to plan a vengeance plot against a Hollywood idol who once preyed on Yoko Akia’s mother.

When a brilliant securities broker is wrongfully convicted, her network of strong female friends—The Sisterhood—teams up to expose the real culprits and restore justice in a high-stakes battle against ruthless fraudsters.

A young woman's quest for love and reconciliation after her husband's death in a French plantation setting in the 1870s.

When a friend’s daughter goes missing during a monastery evacuation, a tight‑knit sisterhood of women and their allies band together to track her down from the streets of Macau to the heart of China.

Six New York women gather monthly for a book club that blends romance, literature, and friendship, only to confront painful truths, betrayals, and the complexities of marriage and divorce.

Dana Covington never thought she'd be a widow at 38, but sometimes that's the way life works out. It's a good thing Dana's friends, Norell and Cecile, are always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on...even when they've got big problems of their own. Just as Norell gives up on her dream to have a baby, she's shocked when Cecile turns up pregnant again. Norell's heartbreak throws her friendship with Cecile into a complete tailspin. And just when things can't get much worse, Cecile's sexy younger sister comes to town. As usual, Micheline is looking for trouble--"and this time, she finds enough for everyone. With tension mounting between the trio, it seems like their friendship might not stand the test. But when all is said and done, true friends know that the closest pals aren't perfect--"and that the very people who drive you crazy are the ones you love the most.

A journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean 'Dutch' Gillis on a quest for self-discovery, complete with boyish-looking Dutch, his friend Heydorf, and the confusion and volatile feelings of youth, when sex is a mystery waiting to be understood, and death seems remote until it brushes close with a breath-stopping suddenness.

When a prodigiously talented boy is threatened by exploitative caregivers, Isabelle rallies the Sisterhood to safeguard him and hunt for a missing member of their close-knit vigilante group.