Books like No Bed of Roses by Joan Fontaine

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

A motivational guide for movie stars, focusing on their personal growth and life lessons.

When Annis sells her Caribbean island home, she meets eccentric millionaire Drogo Wolfe, whose unexpected interest in her as a wife rattles them both.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A long‑lost letter from Millderhurst Castle uncovers a hidden family secret, pulling Edie Burchill into her mother’s past and a World War II story hewn from the silent walls of Bermondsey.

An intimate biography that explores the professional and personal intersections of Sondra Locke’s career with the motion‑picture industry, featuring insights from her collaborations with legendary director Clint Eastwood.

When actress Cassandra Winter is left in intensive care after a violent attack, Chase Tessier reflects on their eight‑year romance set against the backdrop of the Tessier winery, vowing to win her back.

"Gene Kelly was a complex person, and this biography of the star as a multi-dimensional man is the first to become available since he died in 1996. Working from new research and interviews with people who knew and worked closely with the celebrated dancer, choreographer, and director, author Alvin Yudkoff draws a portrait of an awe-inspiring yet flawed artist who was dedicated to his craft, innovative and exacting, and also fiercely competitive and controlling.". "This story also follows Gene's relationships, and explores his uniqueness as a performer who came to Hollywood and changed the ways that dance would be integrated into the film musical. Here is a book for every lover of dance, fan of the classic Hollywood musicals, and admirer of the phenomenon that was Gene Kelly."--BOOK JACKET.

"There really was a Hollywood, a place of fashionable men and gorgeous women and the all-powerful studio system that allowed them to defy the conventions that governed the rest of the country. Clark Gable arrived there after a rough-and-tumble youth, and his breezy, big- boned, everyman persona quickly made him the town's "King." He was a gambler among gamblers, a heavy drinker in the days when everyone drank seemingly all the time, and a lover to legions of the most attractive women in the most glamorous business in the world.". "In this biography, Warren G. Harris gives us a portrait of one of the most memorable actors in the history of motion pictures, as well as a sure sense of the milieu and the times of mid-century Hollywood. More than anything else, one is struck by the romance of the era - the glamour and the excess, the playfulness and the lust. The people who were Gable's intimates are legends in their own right: Loretta Young, Marion Davies, David O. Selznick, Jean Harlow, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Grace Kelly, and the list goes on and on." "Clark Gable reveals newly uncovered information about Gables's illegitimate daughter, his relationship with Joan Crawford, and his great love for Carole Lombard, his third wife."--BOOK JACKET.

Zafiro Talavera guards her grandfather’s outlaw legacy in a hidden Sierra Madre canyon, until a wounded stranger named Sawyer arrives, challenging her gang’s loyalties and reigniting love in a perilous quest for hidden treasure.

A story of passion and vulnerability, where a former lover's bold pursuit of erotic love letters leads her to surrender to a powerful and unexpected attraction.