Books like Lie By Moonlight by Jayne Ann Krentz

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

Amanda Briars, an unmarried novelist, contracts a one‑night affair with the notorious businessman Jack Devlin, only to discover that their fleeting pleasure may pave the way for a marriage that could change both of their lives.

A sleep researcher and a government operative collide in an intriguing tale of suspense and romance, set on the cusp of the night.

After an enchanted encounter on the hunter’s moon, Cordelia Grant becomes a schoolmistress at a girls’ academy, where a dashing land baron named Jason Verringer vies for her attention amid rumors of a dark past.

Before a carriage wreck, Christine awakens in a snowstorm, embraced by a stranger’s hand—a whirlwind romance waiting to unfold in the Regency era.

Madeline Deveridge, the infamous Wicked Widow, faces a haunting that threatens her and her aunt while she enlists the reclusive Artemas Hunt, owner of London’s pleasure pavilions, to uncover ancient mysteries and survive a calculating killer.

Venetia Milton, a struggling photographer, poses as a widow to maintain her gallery after her enigmatic employer’s murder, only to discover she and the dead man share a psychic bond that draws them back into danger.

A neighborhood mystery unfolds when Gail and Conan investigate a burned‑out house and a series of recent robberies, searching for a hidden connection.

A young, idealistic teacher's first year in the rural West Texas prairie.

When a runaway boy hosts herself with Daisy Spencer, the town’s Sunday‑school teacher, a romance blooms between Daisy’s community‑loving heart and the boy’s uncle—DC cop Walker Ames—who sees the relationship as his chance at redemption.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

"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.

A suspenseful investigation into a mysterious murder that grips a small community.

Hannah Setterington, a seasoned governess, trades her academy for a companion role with the enigmatic Lord Raeburn, whose dark past and rumored murder of his wife threaten to ignite a passionate and dangerous romance.

Two strangers on a dangerous quest to save the galaxy, one from Cidra's ethereal beauty and the other from Teague Severance's ruggedness.

Grace Elland confronts a deadly conspiracy after her boss’s murder, relying on an ex‑Marine’s skills to protect herself and uncover a sinister plot threatening her life and those around her.

Three best friends from a Virginia town reunite in this contemporary romance, as one woman confronts the past when a long‑lost childhood love returns as a Manhattan attorney.