Books like Battle prize by Jayne Ann Krentz

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Ten years after leaving Gallant Lake as a mousy, overweight, disgraced woman, Filomena Cromwell returns as a rich, beautiful lady to exact revenge against her unfaithful ex‑fiancé and the town’s small‑minded folks.

Jessie Benedict’s planned marriage to powerful heir Sam Hatchard turns perilous when he reveals a hidden agenda for her inheritance, forcing her to balance romance with her detective ambitions.

In the Regency era, Prudence Merryweather defies social norms, courting the enigmatic Earl Sebastian Angelstone to protect her family and confront dangerous duels, creating a passionate and perilous romance.

In a charming seaside village, Harriet Pomeroy hires the formidable Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to fight thieves using her caves—yet she discovers that the man she summons is the feared Beast of Blackthorne Hall.

Annie Lyncroft schemes to marry into wealth while protecting her brother's electronics company from rivals in the Pacific Northwest, leading to a heart-pounding whirlwind of love and betrayal.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.