Books like The Runaway Duke by Julie Anne Long

In Regency England, Duke Alexander Moncrieffe seeks revenge on Ian Eversea by seducing Ian’s sister Genevieve, forcing her to confront a powerful attraction and a perilous choice.

A scandalous, romance-driven tale of a notorious duke who fakes a ward, only to return and demand his bride’s devotion in exchange for their wedding night.

Set in Regency‑era Britain, Emily Hendrickson’s *The Contrary Corinthian* offers a charming look at the era’s social customs and romantic entanglements through witty dialogue, nuanced characters, and a sincere exploration of class and courtship.

Joanna Winterton mourns her fiancé's death in the picturesque Lake District as she tries to forget the past and move on in Regency-era romance and historical fiction, filled with romance, death, and the search for love in the timeless setting of the English countryside.

A Regency romance by Emily Hendrickson that explores love, status, and secrecy in the early‑19th‑century court.

Duke: A Love Story is a stunning, deeply moving book, the warm, funny, tender and finally, tragic story of the last years of one of America's most beloved men-by the woman he loved. John Wayne and Pat Stacy were together for seven years. For all those years she was his secretary and companion, for the last five the woman he loved, so openly and with pride, and who loved him back. They shared everything together, alone and with his family and friends, and the Wayne she gives us is very different from the Wayne of legend. This is "Duke" the man, tender, loving, stubborn, generous, cantankerous, impulsive, humorous, and finally, full of rage at the cancer he had to battle for the second time in his life; the cancer that, after Stacy cared for him day after day and shared his agony, cut away at the man who had been so vital and strong-but to which he reused to succumb. Duke: A Love Story is a revelation, a book full of joy and sorrow and courage-the real John Wayne brought to vivid, loving life.

In the shadows of 19th‑century London, opera star Mariana Wylde is hunted as the “Harlot of Haywood Street,” while the aristocratic Grand Palace schemes to restore her name—only to find her and the formidable Duke of Valkirk surprised by a mutual, forbidden attraction.