Books like Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill

Ruth Benedict, a sophisticated New Yorker, uproots to a small Southern town, where she confronts hostility, discovers two estranged brothers, and brings wealth, faith, and new possibilities, while challenging the community’s expectations.

Heiress Betty Stanhope faces a forced marriage and a secret plot to seize her inheritance, but she escapes the ceremony and seeks help from a mysterious stranger, Jane Carson, while a ruthless bridegroom hunts her down.

Two bachelor brothers, David and Joseph, live on an old farm until a city‑raised sister, adopted by an aunt, arrives and reveals their kinship, bringing faith, love and renewal to their home and village.

With four younger siblings to support as well as her invalid mother, since her father died unexpectedly the previous year, Shirley was really up against it. Her tiny secretary's salary could only afford rent for a house that was too small and located in an area with excessive heat, traffic, and pollution. To compound the problems she had been served notice that the family must move in a few weeks. This is why a large stone barn outside the city, in a spacious natural setting with cool, fresh air seemed so inviting. The barn's owner, Sidney, was also up against it in trying to get the barn not only in a habitable, but also in a truly homelike and comfortable state without appearing to be offering charity nor compelling an increase in rent. Shirley completely refused charity of any kind, but was so completely conscientious and loyal in her work, at times jeopardizing her own safety and even risking her life, that abundant help came her way in many forms, leading eventually to property ownership that guaranteed lifetime security for her family. Along the way she taught Sidney the meaning of inner wealth, which is what he really wanted rather than the haughty, condescending, shallow, superficial, undeserving hypocrisy of some of his rich acquaintances. His curiousity about how someone could really live in a barn came to be richly rewarded. Shirley found that her daring bravery in attempting actual life in a barn was also richly rewarded. As she and Sidney discovered what real wealth was, it wasn't only the barn that was enchanted.

From the back cover: When a beautiful young woman approaches wealthy Tyron Dunham at a train station and tells him she is in danger, he agrees to see her to safety. Then, before he can learn any more about her other than that her name is Mary and she is running to Chicago, she is gone. But Tyron cannot forget Mary’s beautiful face and spirit. Soon he finds himself trying desperately to solve the mystery that surrounds her...a mystery that could overwhelm them both. And he determines to discover the true identity of the young woman he longs to protect — and love.

Trouble has a way of finding Jason Whitney, and only his sister Joyce and the pastor’s daughter Rose see any good in him. So, when he is fired from the bank the same day it is robbed, the blame quickly falls to him. Unable to defend himself, Jason flees town. Joyce begs her wealthy friend Rowan to help prove Jason’s innocence, but now Rowan has also gone missing.