Books like Deep in the Heart by Gilbert Morris

Framboise Simon returns to a Loire‑bank village where her past as the daughter of a wartime figure remains concealed. A scrapbook of recipes and memories she inherited from her mother holds the key to a tragedy that scarred her childhood.

In early Texas, a brave Comanche warrior rescues a captured white woman, and together they navigate love and conflict between two worlds.

Kate Wallace returns to her hometown of Silver Lake, Texas, after a failed city life, hoping to reconnect with ex‑love Rob Chambers – now a single father – and find faith‑based love.

A young widow fights for survival in post-Reconstruction Alabama, using Southern Gothic traditions to create a memorable heroine and explore the complexities of race and loyalty in the Old South.

In Victorian England, Brook Edgerton’s longing for an heir leads his wife Harriet to a desperate act of motherhood, while her close friend Felicity’s obsession threatens to unravel their marriage.

During the Great Depression in East Texas, the Stoddard sisters—responsible Mayme, tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—navigate poverty, drought, and a devastating family accident, ultimately turning to a wildcat oil well and a racehorse for hope.

Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change. After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War. Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender and sexual contradictions. An introduction by Jose E. Limon, epilogue by Maria Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture. This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.

Five fresh Regency tales of love, intrigue, and romance celebrate Valentine’s Day in a charming anthology.

Samantha Carlyle flees danger to her quiet Texas hometown, where her first love and friend John Thomas Knight‑Sheriff awaits—a dangerous, passionate reunion that may protect her life and ignite a perilous romance.