Books like Heart of Thunder by Johanna Lindsey

In Wessex, 873, teenage Viking princess Kristen Haardrad defies her Saxon captor, Thane Royce of Wyndhurst, and sparks a passionate battle of wills that forces them to confront hidden guilt and longing.

Sheena, a 19‑year‑old heiress of the Fergusson clan, is bound to marry the feared 25‑year‑old laird Jamie MacKinnion to end a deadly feud, yet she struggles between duty, pride and a growing desire for the man she must love.

When 17‑year‑old Reina is taken captive by the 23‑year‑old knight Ranulf, she uses her wits to bargain for her freedom, offering him the inheritance of Clydon Castle in exchange for marriage—and a chance to escape Lord Rothwell’s snarl.

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 Highland romance with a dark past, where a widowed lady seeks justice and a man from the past must learn to let go...

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.

Freshly widowed British aristocrat Jocelyn Fleming leaves London for the American West, where she encounters the fierce Cheyenne cowboy Colt Thunder, and their worlds collide in a passionate, cross-cultural romance.

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.

Seventeen‑year‑old Portia Worth, a rebellious illegitimate niece of the Marquis of Granville, is mistakenly abducted by the outlaw Rufus Decatur, leading to a battle of wills and an unexpected romance that challenges both their lives.

Georgia, Countess of Maybury's second brilliant marriage to save her reputation after losing everything in a duel leads her into a forbidden love with a scarred ex-naval officer, stirring up scandal and creating a family scandal with her husband's new wife.

(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.

Dede Martin thought she had found a good man to protect her fatherless son. That is until he attacks the nearby Ponca leaving Dede and her son to be kidnapped in revenge. Against her fears, Dede soon melts with passion for her captor, Thunder Heart, whose fierce anger gives way to blazing desire. For he is a man whose strength brings her courage, a man whose love sets her free.

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.