Books like The Rivals by Joan Johnston

Alex Cross is charged with murdering followers of his nemesis, thrust into a legal battle that threatens his career and freedom while he, with former partner John Sampson, investigates a series of missing young girls linked to a dangerous internet cult.

In Regency England, American rebel Charlotte Edgerton enters the Earl of Denbigh’s home and defies his expectations, forcing him to confront his own heart while she battles for freedom.

Former army sniper Ben Benedict balances high society and city streets while chasing an Al Qaeda bioweapon plot that threatens millions. His mission forces him to confront a haunted past and the man‑woman relationship with Dr. Anna Schuster.

A Texas postmistress gets mixed up in a Central American adventure and finds herself chasing down her own brother.

A contemporary romance set in Virginia’s horse farms, blending a summer mystery and the perspective of women veterinarians who become witnesses in a missing‑persons case.

In spring 1930, Maisie Dobbs is hired to locate a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress’s former friends are found dead, she races to uncover who would murder these respectable young women before it’s too late.

A Mexican fisherman finds an arm near Marina del Rey, sparking a LAPD investigation into the disappearance of beach house owner Laura Finnegan. Love triangles and hidden motives complicate the search for the truth.

An unexpected encounter in Washington leads to a thrilling adventure for a young woman trying to finish her first novel.

A chilling mystery on cruise ships as a serial killer targets lonely women with deadly intentions.

In the wide-open landscapes of modern Texas, Owen Blackthorne and Bayleigh Creed, two siblings from feuding families, must join forces to find Bayleigh’s missing brother amid rugged wilderness and looming vendettas.

Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose -- because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time. Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search -- putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own.

A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

Grace, a lifelong resident of Cedar Cove and public‑library librarian, grapples with her husband Dan’s sudden disappearance while navigating family, friend, and town dynamics amid weddings, babies, and new relationships.

Flame Bennett, a rising advertising executive, finds herself caught between mentor Malcolm Powell, ambitious mogul Chance Stuart, and the opera diva Lucianna Colton, as a century‑old legacy of greed, adultery and murder threatens to claim them all.