Books like Otherwise engaged by Jayne Ann Krentz

A covert scientific team ventures into the isolated Area X, a reclaimed landscape rife with anomalies and unknown life. As discoveries deepen, hidden motives and secrets threaten to unravel the expedition and alter humanity’s understanding of nature.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

A Scottish laird, Alec Kincaid, is ordered to take the English beauty Jamie as his wife, sparking a fiery clash of wills that ends in a dangerous, passionate alliance.

Raven Whitney, a telepathic serial‑killer hunter, finds herself drawn to Mikhail Dubrinksy, the Prince of the Carpathians, as their forbidden passion threatens both love and safety.

On a secluded island, novelist Parker Evans lives under an assumed identity, guarding his secrets. Publisher Maris Matherly‑Reed pursues him, but her newfound obsession threatens a lifelong commitment she cannot ignore.

A high‑stakes thriller where a British intelligence unit hunts a transnational criminal, aided by a team of Ukrainian operatives.

A psychological thriller that follows Martie Rhodes as she and her husband Dusty confront a series of mind‑bending events involving a draconian psychologist, drug‑rehabilitated brother, and the terror of self‑fear.

Joe Pickett is drawn into a covert FBI operation in Wyoming’s red desert after his friend Nate Romanowski seeks help to clear his record, leading both men into a deadly conspiracy.

A brutal London aristocrat, the Killer Duke Temple, reigned for twelve years until the return of his accused bride, Mara, who offers him absolution and a chance to prove his innocence.

When Lord St. Merryn hires a paid companion to pose as a betrothed, he hires Elenora Lodge—an ambitious young woman who discovers his hidden secrets and a dangerous plot, turning a simple ruse into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

Viscount Breckenridge rescues a daring lady from the clutches of a mysterious kidnapper.

A romance filled with tension and passion between a writer and philosophy professor, set in a mountain cabin retreat.

Lady Georgiana, sister to a duke, hides a shocking double life as the unseen founder of London's most notorious gaming den, while handsome detective Duncan West seeks to uncover her buried secrets and risks everything to claim her heart.

A psychic curse, a legendary lamp, and a forbidden romance collide as crime lord Griffin Winters and mysterious Adelaide Pyne uncover the deadly secrets of the Arcane Society.

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.

Quicksilver follows mysterious scientist Virginia Dean as she wakes beside a dead body with no memory, drawn into the Arcane Society, where psychic mirrors and hidden societies blur reality and romance.

A frantic hunt in London as former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter leads Private London to stop a killer abducting young women, while his past connections threaten to surface.

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.

A romance novel about a woman who has to navigate a marriage that is not what she expected, as she learns to appreciate her new husband and embrace the responsibilities of being married to him.

Lady Philippa Marbury has fourteen days to explore London’s darker side before saying ‘I do’, when she hires Cross, owner of a clandestine gaming club, to show her the city’s underworld.

"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.

Beatrice Lockwood, a former Crown spy, is confused into helping a disabled ex‑spy on a hunt for the true culprit, only to fall in love with him and then become the target of a mad scientist determined to revive a dead lover.

After surviving a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman navigates love, war, and betrayal in 1945 London as she seeks hope, home, and truth amid espionage and ideological conflict.

In "In Too Deep" psychic investigator Fallon Jones and runaway Isabella Valdez uncover a secret conspiracy in the secluded coastal town of Scargill Cove.