Books like Defy Not the Heart by Johanna Lindsey

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

In 18th‑century Paris, Mary Challoner masquerades as her naive sister to protect her from the vicious Marquis Dominic Alastair, the notorious "Devil's Cub," who kidnaps her instead of the intended heiress.

A dynastic betrothal unites Britain’s most powerful families, but the intended bride Milisant and groom Wulfric resist the arranged marriage, and King John opposes it—yet love eventually triumphs over politics and status.

An exiled princess, unaware of her royal lineage, is forced to dance in a rural Mississippi tavern until a golden‑eyed devil swears to claim her. A daring foreign prince arrives in America, challenging both the princess and the devil for her heart.

An 19‑year‑old heiress, outraged by the charming abductor Nicholas Eden, vows to make him pay with his heart, sparking a passionate and perilous romance that may live only once.

When Courtney Harte searches for her missing father deep in Comanche territory, she enlists the help of the outlaw gunslinger Chandos. Together they confront dangers and a growing, forbidden love amid the untamed frontier.

A seductive romance set in Britain where a 21‑year‑old young woman defends her heart against a Marquess who seeks her in the most unlikely of places—a brothel—turning deceptions into passion.

Two sisters flee a cruel stepfather, stealing a family heirloom to escape to London. While posing as a servant, one is drawn to a nobleman who must decide between love and protecting her true identity.

A Highland heir in London is bound to marry the city’s most coveted guide, but duty, secrets, and unexpected affection threaten their arranged union in this romantic historical saga.

A 17‑year‑old French heiress, Brigitte de Louroux, vows never to be a slave, yet finds herself drawn to the warrior lord Rowland of Montville amid the social customs of France.

Tycoon Rhys Winterborne pursues wealth and status by courting the shy aristocrat Lady Helen Ravenel, whose quiet upbringing turns into unexpected passion as the two navigate love and ambition.

After a benefactor’s murder leaves Lily Tremaine destitute and guardian of three children, she turns to his cousin, the charming Viscount Knight Winthrop. Amid social intrigue and danger, their reluctant attraction blossoms into a passionate romance.

A fiery 19‑year‑old bride-to-be faces the daring temptation of a rough‑hewn outlaw who sparks her forbidden desire. Amid a sprawling Mexican estate, love, rebellion, and danger collide in a sweeping historical romance.

A 20th‑century romance where Corinne, a scandalous Boston woman, sails to Hawaii to exact vengeance on the man who ruined her, leading to a fiery love triangle that threatens or conquers them both.

A spirited heroine seeks true love while fleeing the advances of a powerful warrior destined to become her lifemate. Amid forbidden longing and perilous pursuit, she must decide what the heart truly desires.

Tiffany Warren travels west to end a longstanding feud and marry rancher Hunter Callahan, only to find herself pretending to be her father's housekeeper and entangled in mistaken identity, rivalry, and forbidden attraction.

When the Malory family gathers at Haverston, an anonymous present—a forgotten journal—revealsthe passionate, forbidden love between Christopher Malory, the second Marquis, and Anastasia, a gypsy woman fighting an arranged marriage.

When the disgraced Bolton family faces ruin, Alexandra Bolton turns to marriage—a strategy she abandoned after her mother’s death. But her meeting with the scandal‑shrouded Duke of Clarewood rekindles forbidden passions, risking her future and an ancient secret.

Allegra Nesbitt, a quick‑witted woman shaped by her practical‑joking father, meets the charming Armand who soon finds himself entangled with her and her chaotic family.

Young Gabrielle Brooks, grieving her mother, discovers her father’s hidden life as a Caribbean pirate. After three years of adventure, she’s returned to London, where romance and revenge intertwine as she battles the dashing sea captain Drew Anderson.

During the 1837 Christmas at Casphairn Manor, tutor Daniel Crosbie and widow governess Claire Meadows navigate love and family duty as the Cynster clan offers help to a mountain village in a winter storm.

(The seventh book in the Malory Family series) Jeremy, the son of gentleman pirate James Malory, falls in love.... When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he wants her as his mistress. Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Although she is drawn to Jeremy by passionate feelings she has never experienced before, she refuses to be anything more than a servant to him because she knows he is not the marrying kind. When Danny undergoes a Cinderella-like transformation and poses as Jeremy's new love in an attempt to help him avert a scandal, a few highly placed members of the ton remark on how familiar Danny looks. Now tongues are wagging, raising the question of her true identity, which threatens not only Danny's chances of capturing Jeremy's heart but her very life. With the humor, lovable characters, and romantic intensity that have placed Johanna Lindsey's six previous Malory novels in the ranks of the best-loved and most widely read romantic novels of our time, Johanna Lindsey delights readers with an emotionally powerful tale of an irresistible scoundrel who meets his match in a brave, strong-minded young woman and can't help but fall in love.

After years abroad, Royal returns to a dying duke and a nearly empty treasury. He must marry heiress Jocelyn Caulfield, but his heart is drawn to her cousin Lily Moran, who schemes to recover the estate’s fortune together.

In Regency England, the immaculate governess Lady Charlotte Dalrumple must navigate a rocky romance with the unruly Lord Wynter Ruskin, learning that genuine love requires breaking the strict rules of courtship.

A sweeping romance that launches Maresa Fairweather from the moors of Yorkshire to the Tuscan hills, following her tumultuous journey from headstrong fifth daughter to a woman who balances love, duty, and self-discovery.

When her brothers’ lives endanger, Lady Margaret Chattan—vowing never to marry to break a centuries‑old curse—teams with Laird Heath Macnachtan to battle a formidable supernatural foe.

A heart‑filled adventure of a woman searching for her missing father through a harsh Indian landscape, guided by the enigmatic gunslinger Chandos, whose wild spirit sparks love and danger in equal measure.