Books like The duke's undoing by G. G. Vandagriff

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

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.

A charming novel of Regency manners and mores, Lady Susan Vernon seeks an advantageous second marriage and attempts to force her daughter into a dismal match.

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

Melville's adventure tale of an American sailor's journey to a Polynesian paradise, revealing its flawed aspects.

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 collection of short stories by Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated into English, that examine social life, manners, and customs through humor and irony.

A charming blend of romance and history, this engaging historical romance novel showcases the complex bonds of family and the challenges of love and duty.

A Duke's temptation: The notorious author of dark romances seeks to change the moral compass of the public, while a devoted fan discovers scandalous secrets about his character.

A collection of 21 short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, showcasing his literary prowess.

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…

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 time-travel romance set in seventeenth-century England, where Julia Beckett becomes Mariana, a young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and must find a way to lay the past to rest before losing the chance for happiness in her own time.

Trevor Phillips returns home to claim his inheritance, only to discover his estate ruined and a stunning, youthful Dowager Duchess awaiting him. Their flirtatious dance forces both to confront duties, desires, and a secret plan that could alter their fates.