Books like The Veil by Helen Mittermeyer

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.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

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.

Irene, a spy for the secretive Invisible Library, and her assistant Kai race through an alternate London to recover a stolen book that threatens the fabric of reality.

A Highland romance with a dark past, where a widowed lady seeks justice and a man from the past must learn to let go...

Georgia, Countess of Maybury's second brilliant marriage to save her reputation after losing everything in a duel leads her into a forbidden love with a scarred ex-naval officer, stirring up scandal and creating a family scandal with her husband's new wife.

SHE WAS A GODDESS OF FIRE AND ICE.... — A mysterious Viking princess, Iona hid her beauty behind a veil, vowing never to put herself at the mercy of any man. Skilled both in battle and the healing arts, she sailed a fleet of ships across the treacherous sea to her birthplace in the Orkney Islands. But wild winds and fateful tides altered her course, hurling her on Scotland's northernmost shores...and into the arms of a Scottish warlord. HE WAS THE HEATHEN WHO WOULD DEFY HEAVEN--OR HELL--TO CLAIM HER.... For his heroic exploits in the frozen North Sea, Magnus Sinclair was legendary; for his romantic exploits among women, the Scottish chieftain was notorious. Yet when his ships defeated lona's forces in a heated battle at sea, her fierce pride and fragile beauty shook him to his soul. And when Magnus returned to his native Scotland, where a secret enemy plotted his ruin, he was determined to bring his lovely captive with him not as plundered booty...but as his bride and ally.

A psychic former preacher meets a troubled gospel artist and the two help each other work through their problems.

In the hot summer of North Devon, Detective Matthew Venn investigates a staged murder of a local public servant, only to uncover a web of deceit that threatens his own community and his personal life.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.