Books like The Substitute Bride by Janet Dean

When Revenger Rick Conway forces a reluctant Emma into a temporary marriage to escape her bleak life, the arrangement slips from a pact into turmoil as secrets surface and affection develops.

When 6th Earl Gervase Tregarth vows to marry the next suitable lady he meets, his neighbor Madeline Gascoigne, the promise turns into a passionate battle of wills during the London Season.

Three sisters struggle to reconcile their faith with the world outside the convent.

Red Robert, a woman who has lured seasmen with a man’s identity, vows revenge against her lifelong nemesis, Blair Colm. When she and the handsome Captain Logan Hagarty are stranded on a desert isle, they must outwit Colm and defend their burgeoning love.

ISOLDE WOULD RATHER WED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! For the odious Harold Biggelswade was, in her opinion, a good deal worse than the devil. But her avaricious guardian, Uncle Wendall, insisted the wedding would take place in three weeks. What was a poor desperate orphan like Isolde to do? Unbeknownst to her, a notorious rake, the new Earl of Shalbourne, faced difficulties tantamount to her own. For his formidable aunt Jane now threatened to exclude him from her considerable will (ruin!) should he not marry and produce an heir forthwith. So, reluctantly, he responded to the curious ad in the London Morning Chronicle, a desperate lady's plea for a savior—a substitute bridegroom. The wedding was hasty. The honeymoon, horrific, for the odious Harold was hot on their trail. But Shalbourne found Isolde an amorous armful—for a bride acquired through the morning paper!

A Marriage of Necessity Elizabeth Goldsborough was the happiest of young ladies. Not only was she the Incomparable of the London season, she was to wed the most handsome gentleman of the ton, the dashing Simon Bellgrave. Then, shockingly, all was stripped from her. An accidental encounter with the arrogant Captain Darius St. John left her with no choice but to wed this man she barely knew. Now she was a wife in name only in a marriage of necessity...trying desperately not to fall in love with a bridegroom who had asked for her hand out of honor but bad no interest in her heart....

A romantic adventure of love, deception, and the search for identity.

In the 19th‑century West, former gambler Camille Dupree seeks a fresh start in Willow Grove, Texas, where her past and a budding romance with Mayor Tyler McKinnon threaten to test her new life as a respectable businesswoman.

A U.S. Marshal hunting justice for his first wife’s murder must decide if marriage to a steadfast schoolteacher will save her reputation and restore his own redemption.

Eliza Kelly, a dignified widow in New Mexico, almost loses her reputation when a mix‑up leads her to a mail‑order groom. When the colorful blacksmith Jackson Hart joins her life, they must navigate pride, prejudice, and a marriage of convenience to honor their shared dreams of family and redemption.

In the Depression era, widowed farm owner Kate Bradshaw faces hardship until a wandering drifter, Hatcher Jones, appears, offering kindness that brings hope, love, and redemption into her lonely life.

In a small town, Adelaide Crum, a single woman, hopes to give orphaned children a home amid local skepticism, while newspaperman Charles Graves learns to open his heart to love and faith.

On Nantucket Island, Irish immigrant Lucie McNeil dreams of a better life while serving an elderly couple. When Gabriel Hunter, the son of her employers, arrives—she recognizes him as the cruel owner of the Boston factory that scarred her—she finds herself drawn to his hidden kindness.

A Texas heiress, Delia Keller, returns to the Hill Country during Christmas to rebuild her life, but her plans are challenged by a weary Civil War chaplain, Jude Tucker, who seeks faith and love.

After years abroad, Royal returns to a dying duke and a nearly empty treasury. He must marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield, but his heart is drawn to her cousin Lily Moran, who schemes to recover the estate’s fortune together.

In ancient Egypt, Tuya and Joseph navigate the trials of slavery, friendship, and faith, sharing a dream that may guide them toward freedom and destiny.

When her brief marriage dissolves, seamstress Vonnie Taylor is forced to craft a wedding dress for her former husband Adam's new bride. Amid family feuds and buried truths, Vonnie rediscovers love in the heart of Texas.