Books like Hostages to fortune by Jocelyn Griffin

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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.

Davinia Sinclair ignores the Duke of Strathavon’s advances, preferring the love of Lord Maunsell, whose fortunes grow as he seeks to win her hand.

A young writer in 1950s Lima becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his older aunt while a charismatic radio columnist complicates the story, creating a lively blend of passion and melodrama.

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.

Linda Burke, after losing her inheritance and reputation, is framed for murder and faces execution. Deputy Kurt Michaels, convinced of her innocence, uncovers a deeper mystery and a chance for both to reclaim a lost treasure.

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Historical romance set in England as newly married Lynden Downpatrick battles pride and suspicion in her marriage to the celebrated young poet‑Lord Justin Melbrooke.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Dana Covington never thought she'd be a widow at 38, but sometimes that's the way life works out. It's a good thing Dana's friends, Norell and Cecile, are always ready to give her a shoulder to cry on...even when they've got big problems of their own. Just as Norell gives up on her dream to have a baby, she's shocked when Cecile turns up pregnant again. Norell's heartbreak throws her friendship with Cecile into a complete tailspin. And just when things can't get much worse, Cecile's sexy younger sister comes to town. As usual, Micheline is looking for trouble--"and this time, she finds enough for everyone. With tension mounting between the trio, it seems like their friendship might not stand the test. But when all is said and done, true friends know that the closest pals aren't perfect--"and that the very people who drive you crazy are the ones you love the most.

Darcy Evans, a London street‑scrounger, is sent to America and rehired by an old friend, where she joins Lyon’s Refuge for delinquent boys. There her unruly charm unsettles schoolmaster Brent Thomas, leading to an unlikely romance of growth and compassion.

A former Navy SEAL turned bodyguard struggles to protect a single mother and her daughters while his growing attraction to her blurs the line between duty and desire.

In a city scarred by an epidemic, Nell Crane navigates life as the only citizen lacking a mechanical limb—her heart replaced by circuitry—while her famed scientist father fuels society’s biomechanical future. Finding a discarded hand sparks her quest to create a companion and uncover hidden experiments.