Books like Cast a Tender Shadow by Isabel Dix

Quarterly dividends Stephanie's marriage to Dominic Rayburn is pure business -- a deal to keep her brother out of jail and fulfill the conditions of Dominic's inheritance. Here, business and pleasure don't mix. Her husband, however, isn't satisfied with a mere handshake. Dominic's quarterly collection of conjugal "dues" forces her into battle with herself -- Stephanie hates him and hates herself for wanting him. But now he's offering her release, if she'll play the part of loving wife on an island holiday. But after time alone with the man she "despises," will it really be her freedom she wants?

"Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and they are about to be married in the orchard of Green Gables. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises"--

***In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love.*** Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. ***Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends.*** **But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and hardship can be overcome** by the strength of a loving, loyal relationship. **An unsentimental yet uplifting story, Joy in the Morning is a timeless and radiant novel of marriage and young love.*--Goodreads***

Three women meet at their fifteen-year class reunion and discover that their lives have taken unexpected directions.

Set in Brooklyn, this gripping mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. The only clue to her mysterious ailment lies in her obsession with news accounts from Germany.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions.

Married and in love, Russell and Corrine Calloway are blessed with nuptial bliss and a life at the center of a large and varied circle of the beautiful and wealthy in a booming metropolis.

Bliss Barton woke up with her first hangover -- and a half-naked hunk in her bed! Giving her s smile that would melt icebergs, Dutton McHugh found Bliss enchanting, a sleep-rumpled beauty with a halo of auburn curls -- and a feisty temper only he could ignite! Was Dutton a bad dream or an early Christmas present, Bliss wondered, until she recognized her brother's rowdy buddy...and vowed he wasn't her type. She was the careful, cautious one in a clan of free spirits, a late bloomer who'd never sown wild oats -- but Dutton taught her ecstasy with his lips and inflamed her desire, while she tempted him to taste her forbidden fruit. When they were suspected of being lovers, Dutton suggested a clever charade -- but Bliss secretly yearned for their affair to be real. In his arms she couldn't hide her dreams any longer -- and in hers he knew he'd come home. Could Dutton shatter the wall around her heart and convince his angel in velvet they'd be together forever?

Wanneer een gelukkig, succesvol gezin wordt betoverd door de komst van een naïeve, charmante jonge vrouw, heeft dit vergaande gevolgen.

(The second book in the Malory Family series) Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune-hunting scoundrels who covet her wealth. And Anthony Malory is precisely the sort of handsome rogue she's been warned against. A cunning, ruthless, yet irresistible rake, Anthony's sensual blue eyes speak of pleasures beyond her imagining—and Roslynn dearly wishes she dared to surrender to such a man. Believing his passionate promises will surely lead to disaster. But denying her heart may cost the exquisite Highlands lady an unparalleled love hotter than flame and more precious than the rarest jewel.

"In this book, psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Bringing together his knowledge as a doctor with his life-long fascination with Virginia Woolf's life and work, he sheds light on the depression that tormented her adult years."--BOOK JACKET.

WAS MARRIAGE HER ONLY OUT? When she became the victim of a cruel blackmail scheme, Leslie Foster had no choice but to approach her boss, Rod Castle, for help. And when he had solved her problem she rashly promised that she would do anything to repay him. But when "anything" turned out to mean marriage to Rod, who only wanted to shield himself from the attentions of his former financee, Leslie knew she was in over her head. Suddenly she realized that she had lost her heart to her handsome husband--but all the evidence seemed to point to the awful fact that his heart wasn't his to lose!